Mahabharata — Volume IX (Dutt edition) — Chapter 17

MBh 9 17.1

वासुदेव उवाच ततः स प्रयतो भूत्वा मम तात युधिष्ठिर। प्राञ्जलिः प्राह विप्रर्षिर्नामसंग्रहमादितः॥

vāsudeva uvāca tataḥ sa prayato bhūtvā mama tāta yudhiṣṭhira| prāñjaliḥ prāha viprarṣirnāmasaṃgrahamāditaḥ||

Vasudeva said Concentrating his mind, O Yudhishthira, the twiceborn Rishi Upamanyu, with hands joined together in respect, uttered this abstract of names beginning from the very commencement.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.2

उपमन्युरुवाच ब्रह्मप्रोक्तैर्ऋषिप्रोक्तैर्वेदवेदाङ्गसम्भवैः। सर्वलोकेषु विख्यातं स्तुत्यं स्तोष्यामि नामभिः॥

upamanyuruvāca brahmaproktairṛṣiproktairvedavedāṅgasambhavaiḥ| sarvalokeṣu vikhyātaṃ stutyaṃ stoṣyāmi nāmabhiḥ||

Upamanyu said I shall worship that great Deity who is worthy of the adorations of all creatures, by uttering those names which are celebrated over all the worlds,-names some of which were uttered by the Grandfather Brahman, some by the Rishis, and some of which occur in the Vedas, and the auxiliary sciences.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.3

महद्भिर्विहितैः सत्यैः सिद्धैः सर्वार्थसाधकैः। ऋषिणा तण्डिना भक्त्या कृतैर्वेदकृतात्मना॥

mahadbhirvihitaiḥ satyaiḥ siddhaiḥ sarvārthasādhakaiḥ| ṛṣiṇā taṇḍinā bhaktyā kṛtairvedakṛtātmanā||

Those names have been used by eminent persons. They are, again, true and fraught with success, and are capable of accomplishing all the objects of the utterer. They have been given to Mahadeva by Tandi whose soul was purified by Vedic learning and who invented those names with the help of his devotion.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.4

यथोक्तैः साधुभिः ख्यातैर्मुनिभिस्तत्त्वदशिभिः। प्रवरं प्रथमं स्वर्ये सर्वभूतहितं शुभम्॥

yathoktaiḥ sādhubhiḥ khyātairmunibhistattvadaśibhiḥ| pravaraṃ prathamaṃ svarye sarvabhūtahitaṃ śubham||

With those names that have been uttered by many wellknown pious persons and by ascetics conversant with all the subjects I shall worship him who is the greatest, who is the first, who takes to heaven, who is ready to give benefits upon all creatures, and who is auspicious.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.5

श्रुतैः सर्वत्र जगति ब्रह्मलोकावतारितैः। सत्यैस्तत् परमं ब्रह्म ब्रह्मप्रोक्तं सनातनम्॥

śrutaiḥ sarvatra jagati brahmalokāvatāritaiḥ| satyaistat paramaṃ brahma brahmaproktaṃ sanātanam||

Those names have been heard in the universe, having spread from the region of Brahman. All of them are fraught with Truth. With those names I shall worship him who is Supreme Brahma, who has been described by the Vedas, and who is Eternal.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.6

वक्ष्ये यदुकुलश्रेष्ठ शृणुष्वावहितो मम। वरयैनं भवं देवं भक्तस्त्वं परमेश्वरम्॥

vakṣye yadukulaśreṣṭha śṛṇuṣvāvahito mama| varayainaṃ bhavaṃ devaṃ bhaktastvaṃ parameśvaram||

I shall now tell you, O chief of Yadu's race, those names. Hear them with rapt attention. You are a devout worshipper of the Supreme Lord. Adore the illustrious Bhava, knowing him above all the deities.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.7

तेन ते श्रावयिष्यामि यत् तद् ब्रह्म सनातनम्। न शक्यं विस्तरात् कृत्स्नं वक्तुं सर्वस्य केनचित्॥ युक्तेनापि विभूतीनामपि वर्षशतैरपि। यस्यादिमध्यमन्तं च सुरैरपि च गम्यते॥

tena te śrāvayiṣyāmi yat tad brahma sanātanam| na śakyaṃ vistarāt kṛtsnaṃ vaktuṃ sarvasya kenacit|| yuktenāpi vibhūtīnāmapi varṣaśatairapi| yasyādimadhyamantaṃ ca surairapi ca gamyate||

And because you are devoted to him, I shall, therefore, recite those names before you. Mahadeva is Eternal Brahma. No one even one cndued with Yoga is able to describe, in even a hundred years, the glory and power of that great Deity in full. The beginning, middle or end of Mahadeva cannot be apprehended by the very gods.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.8

कस्तस्य शक्नुयाद् वक्तुं गुणान् कात्स्र्येन माधवा किं तु देवस्य महत: संक्षिप्तार्थपदाक्षरम्॥

kastasya śaknuyād vaktuṃ guṇān kātsryena mādhavā kiṃ tu devasya mahata: saṃkṣiptārthapadākṣaram||

Such being the fact, who is there O Mahadeva, that can recite the qualities of Mahadeva in full? I shall, however-through the favour of that illustrious supreme and perfectly wise Deity, extended to me for my devotion to him,-recite his attributes in an abstract of few words and letters.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.9

शक्तितश्चरितं वक्ष्ये प्रसादात् तस्य धीमतः। अप्राप्य तु ततोऽनुज्ञां न शक्यः स्तोतुमीश्वरः॥

śaktitaścaritaṃ vakṣye prasādāt tasya dhīmataḥ| aprāpya tu tato'nujñāṃ na śakyaḥ stotumīśvaraḥ||

The Supreme Lord is incapable of being worshipped by any one if he does not grant his permission to the worshipper. As for myself, it is only when I become fortunate enough to receive his permission that I succeed in worshipping him.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.10

यदा तेनाभ्यनुज्ञातः स्तुतो वै स तदा मया। अनादिनिधनस्याहं जगद्योनेर्महात्मनः॥

yadā tenābhyanujñātaḥ stuto vai sa tadā mayā| anādinidhanasyāhaṃ jagadyonermahātmanaḥ||

I shall mention only a few names of that great God who is without birth and without destruction, who is the original cause of the universe, who is gifted with the highest Soul, and whose origin is unmanifest.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.11

नाम्नां कंचित् समुद्देशं वक्ष्याम्यव्यक्तयोनिनः। वरदस्य वरेण्यस्य विश्वरूपस्य धीमतः॥

nāmnāṃ kaṃcit samuddeśaṃ vakṣyāmyavyaktayoninaḥ| varadasya vareṇyasya viśvarūpasya dhīmataḥ||

Hear, O Krishna, a few names, that were uttered by Brahman himself, of that giver of boons, that worshipful god, that powerful one who has the universe for his form and who is gifted with supreme wisdom.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.12

शृणु नाम्नां चयं कृष्ण यदुक्तं पद्मयोनिना। दशनामसहस्राणि यान्याह प्रपितामहः॥ तानि निर्मथ्य मनसा दध्मो घृतमिवोद्धृतम्।

śṛṇu nāmnāṃ cayaṃ kṛṣṇa yaduktaṃ padmayoninā| daśanāmasahasrāṇi yānyāha prapitāmahaḥ|| tāni nirmathya manasā dadhmo ghṛtamivoddhṛtam|

These names that I shall recite are taken from the ten thousand names that the great Grandfather had uttered in days of yore, as clarified butter is extracted from curds.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.13

गिरेः सारं यथा हेम पुष्पसारं यथा मधु॥ घृतात् सारं यथा मण्डस्तथैतत् सारमुद्धृतम्।

gireḥ sāraṃ yathā hema puṣpasāraṃ yathā madhu|| ghṛtāt sāraṃ yathā maṇḍastathaitat sāramuddhṛtam|

As gold is the essence of rocky mountains, as honey is the essence of flowers, as Manda is the extract from clarified butter, so have these names been extracted from and represent the cream of those ten thousand names that were uttered by the Grandfather Brahman.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.14

सर्वपापापहमिदं चतुर्वेदसमन्वितम॥ प्रयत्नेनाधिगन्तव्यं धार्ये च प्रयताम्ना।

sarvapāpāpahamidaṃ caturvedasamanvitama|| prayatnenādhigantavyaṃ dhārye ca prayatāmnā|

This abstract of names can remove every sin however heinous. It possesses the merit of the four Vedas. It should be understood with care, and be kept in the memory with concentrated soul.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.15

माङ्गल्यं पौष्टिकं चैव रक्षोभं पावनं महत्॥ इदं भक्ताय दातव्यं श्रद्दधानास्तिकाय च। नाश्रद्दधानरूपाय नास्तिकायाजितात्मने॥

māṅgalyaṃ pauṣṭikaṃ caiva rakṣobhaṃ pāvanaṃ mahat|| idaṃ bhaktāya dātavyaṃ śraddadhānāstikāya ca| nāśraddadhānarūpāya nāstikāyājitātmane||

It is fraught with auspiciousness. It brings on advancement. It destroys Rakshasas. It is a great purifier. It should be given only to him who his faith, to him who is devoted to the great Lord, to him who believes. It should never be communicated to him who has no faith, him who is an unbeliever, him who has not conquered his soul.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.16

यश्चाभ्यसूयते देवं कारणात्मानमीश्वरम्। स कृष्ण नरकं याति सह पूर्वैः सहात्मजैः॥

yaścābhyasūyate devaṃ kāraṇātmānamīśvaram| sa kṛṣṇa narakaṃ yāti saha pūrvaiḥ sahātmajaiḥ||

That creature, O Krishna, who entertain malice towards the illustrious Mahadeva who is the original cause of everything, who is the Supreme Soul, and who is the great Lord, has surely to go to hell with all his ancestors before and all his children after him.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.17

इदं ध्यानमिदं योगमिदं ध्येयमनुत्तमम्। इदं जप्यमिदं ज्ञानं रहस्यमिदमुत्तमम्॥

idaṃ dhyānamidaṃ yogamidaṃ dhyeyamanuttamam| idaṃ japyamidaṃ jñānaṃ rahasyamidamuttamam||

This abstract of names that I shall recite to you is regarded as Yoga meditation. This is regarded as Yoga. This is regarded as the highest object of meditation. This is what one should constantly recite. This is knowledge. This is the highest Mystery.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.18

यं ज्ञात्वा अन्तकालेऽपि गच्छेत परमां गतिम्। पवित्रं मङ्गलं मेध्यं कल्याणमिदमुत्तमम्॥

yaṃ jñātvā antakāle'pi gaccheta paramāṃ gatim| pavitraṃ maṅgalaṃ medhyaṃ kalyāṇamidamuttamam||

If one, even on the eve of death, recites it or hears it recited to him, he succeeds in attaining to the highest end. This is holy. This is auspicious, this is fraught with every sort of benefit. This is the best of all things.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.19

इदं ब्रह्मा पुरा कृत्वा सर्वलोकपितामहः। सर्वस्तवानां राजत्वे दिव्यानां समकल्पयत्॥

idaṃ brahmā purā kṛtvā sarvalokapitāmahaḥ| sarvastavānāṃ rājatve divyānāṃ samakalpayat||

Brahman, the Grandfather of all the universe, having in days of yore, composed it, gave to it the foremost place among all excellent hymns.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.20

तदाप्रभृति चैवायमीश्वरस्य महात्मनः। स्तवराज इति ख्यातो जगत्यमरपूजितः॥

tadāprabhṛti caivāyamīśvarasya mahātmanaḥ| stavarāja iti khyāto jagatyamarapūjitaḥ||

Since then, this hymn of the greatness and glory of the great Mahadeva, which is held in the highest reverence by all the gods, is known as the king of all hymns.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.21

पुरा प्राप ब्रह्मलोकादयं स्वर्गे स्तवराजोऽवतारितः। यतस्तण्डि: तेन तण्डिकृतोऽभवत्॥

purā prāpa brahmalokādayaṃ svarge stavarājo'vatāritaḥ| yatastaṇḍi: tena taṇḍikṛto'bhavat||

This king of all hymns was first taken from the region of Brahman to heaven, the region of the gods. Tandi then got it from heaven. Hence it is known as the hynin composed by Tandi.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.22

स्वर्गाच्चैवात्र भूर्लोकं तण्डिना ह्यवतारितः। सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्यं सर्वपापप्रणाशनम्॥

svargāccaivātra bhūrlokaṃ taṇḍinā hyavatāritaḥ| sarvamaṅgalamāṅgalyaṃ sarvapāpapraṇāśanam||

From heaven Tandi brought it down on Earth. It is the most sacred of all sacred things and is capable of removing all sins however heinous.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.23

निगदिष्ये महाबाहो स्तवानामुत्तमं स्तवम्। ब्रह्मणामपि यद् ब्रह्म पराणामपि यत् परम्॥

nigadiṣye mahābāho stavānāmuttamaṃ stavam| brahmaṇāmapi yad brahma parāṇāmapi yat param||

O you of powerful arms, I shall recite to you that best of all hymns. This hymn belongs to him who is the Veda of the Vedas, and the most ancient of all ancient objects.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.24

तेजसामपि यत् तेजस्तपसामपि यत् तपः। शान्तानामपि यः शान्तो द्युतीनामपि या द्युतिः॥

tejasāmapi yat tejastapasāmapi yat tapaḥ| śāntānāmapi yaḥ śānto dyutīnāmapi yā dyutiḥ||

To him who is the energy of all energies and the penance of all penances; to him who is the most tranquil of all creatures gifted with tranquility, and who is the splendour of all splendours.

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MBh 9 17.25

दान्तानामपि यो दान्तो धीमतामपि या च धीः। देवानामपि यो देव ऋषीणामपि यस्त्वृषिः॥

dāntānāmapi yo dānto dhīmatāmapi yā ca dhīḥ| devānāmapi yo deva ṛṣīṇāmapi yastvṛṣiḥ||

To him, who is regarded as the most restrained of all creatures who are restrained, and him who is the intelligence of all creatures gifted with intelligence; to him who is regarded as the god of all gods, and the Rishi of all Rishis.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.26

यज्ञानामपि यो यज्ञः शिवानामपि यः शिवः। रुद्राणामपि यो रुद्रः प्रभा प्रभवतामपि॥

yajñānāmapi yo yajñaḥ śivānāmapi yaḥ śivaḥ| rudrāṇāmapi yo rudraḥ prabhā prabhavatāmapi||

To him who is regarded as the sacrifice of all sacrifices and the most auspicious of all auspicious things; to him who is the Rudra of all the Rudras, and the effulgence of all effulgent things.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.27

योगिनामपि यो रोगी कारणानां च कारणम्। यतो लोकाः सम्भवन्ति न भवन्ति यतः पुनः॥

yogināmapi yo rogī kāraṇānāṃ ca kāraṇam| yato lokāḥ sambhavanti na bhavanti yataḥ punaḥ||

To him who is the Yogin of all Yogins, and the cause of all causes; to him from whom all the worlds come into being, and to whom all the worlds return when they cease to exist.

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MBh 9 17.28

सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य हरस्यामिततेजसः। अष्टोत्तरसहस्रं तु नाम्नां शर्वस्य मे शृणु।

sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya harasyāmitatejasaḥ| aṣṭottarasahasraṃ tu nāmnāṃ śarvasya me śṛṇu|

To him who is the Soul of all creatures, and who is called Hara of great energy. Hear me recite those thousand and eight names of the great Sharva.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.29

यच्छ्रुत्वा मनुजव्याघ्र सर्वान् कामानवाप्स्यसि॥ स्थिरः स्थाणुः प्रभुर्भीमः प्रवरो वरदो वरः।

yacchrutvā manujavyāghra sarvān kāmānavāpsyasi|| sthiraḥ sthāṇuḥ prabhurbhīmaḥ pravaro varado varaḥ|

Hearing those names, O foremost of all men, you will get the fruition of all your desires-Om! you are immobile, you are Fixed, you are Powerful, you are Terrible, you are Foremost, you are Boon-giving, and you are Superior,

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MBh 9 17.30

सर्वात्मा सर्वविख्यातः सर्वः सर्वकरो भवः॥ जटी चर्मी शिखण्डी च सर्वाङ्गः सर्वभावनः। हव्यश्च हरिणाक्षश्च सर्वभूतहरः प्रभुः॥

sarvātmā sarvavikhyātaḥ sarvaḥ sarvakaro bhavaḥ|| jaṭī carmī śikhaṇḍī ca sarvāṅgaḥ sarvabhāvanaḥ| havyaśca hariṇākṣaśca sarvabhūtaharaḥ prabhuḥ||

You are the Soul of all creatures, you are celebrated over all creatures, you are all things, you are the Creator of all, and you are Bhava. You carry matted locks on your head. You put on animal skins for your dress. You have a crest of matted hair on your head like the peacock. You are he who has the whole universe for your limbs. You are the creator of all things. You are Hara because you destroy all things. You are he who has eyes of the gazelle. You are the destroyer of all creatures. You are the supreme enjoyer of all things.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.31

प्रवृत्तिश्च निवृत्तिश्च नियतः शाश्वतो ध्रुवः। श्मशानवासी भगवान् खचरो गोचरोऽर्दनः॥

pravṛttiśca nivṛttiśca niyataḥ śāśvato dhruvaḥ| śmaśānavāsī bhagavān khacaro gocaro'rdanaḥ||

You are that Pravritti whence all actions originate. You are that Nivritti or abstention from acts, you are observant of fasts and vows, you are Eternal, you are Unchangeable. You live in crematoria, you posses the six wellknown lordly powers and the rest, you live in the heart of every creature, you enjoy all things with the senses, and you are the grinder of all sinful creatures.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.32

अभिवाद्यो महाकर्मा तपस्वी भूतभावनः। उन्मत्तवेषप्रच्छन्नः सर्वलोकप्रजापतिः॥ महारूपो महाकायो वृषरूपो महायशाः। महात्मा सर्वभूतात्मा विश्वरूपो महाहनुः॥

abhivādyo mahākarmā tapasvī bhūtabhāvanaḥ| unmattaveṣapracchannaḥ sarvalokaprajāpatiḥ|| mahārūpo mahākāyo vṛṣarūpo mahāyaśāḥ| mahātmā sarvabhūtātmā viśvarūpo mahāhanuḥ||

You are he who is worthy of salutations of all, you are of great feats, you are he who has asceticism for his riches, you create all the elements at your will, you conceal you real nature by putting on the dress of a lunatic. You are the Lord of all the worlds and of all living creatures. You are of immeasurable form. You are of huge body, you are of the form of Righteousness, you are of great fame, you are of great Soul, you are the Soul of all creatures, you have the universe for your form, you are of vast jaws.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.33

लोकपालोऽन्तर्हितात्मा प्रसादो हयगर्दभिः। पवित्रं च महांश्चैव नियमो नियमाश्रितः॥

lokapālo'ntarhitātmā prasādo hayagardabhiḥ| pavitraṃ ca mahāṃścaiva niyamo niyamāśritaḥ||

You are the protector of all the worlds, you allow your Soul to disappear behind the darkness of Ignorance. You are gladness. You are he whose car is borne by mules. You are he who protects individual soul from the thunder of rebirth. You are adorable. You are obtained by purity and self control and vows. You are again the refuge of all kinds of vows and observances including purity and self-control.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.34

सर्वकर्मा स्वयम्भूत आदिरादिकरो निधिः। सहस्राक्षो विशालाक्ष: सोमो नक्षत्रसाधकः॥

sarvakarmā svayambhūta ādirādikaro nidhiḥ| sahasrākṣo viśālākṣa: somo nakṣatrasādhakaḥ||

You are the Divine Architect who is conversant with every art. You are self-create. You are the beginning of all creatures and things. You are Hiranyagarbha, the Creator of all things. You are endless power and happiness. You have a hundred eyes, you have expansive eyes. You are Soma. You are he who makes powerful all righteous creatures to assume glorious forms for shining in the sky.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.35

चन्द्रः सूर्यः शनिः केतुर्ग्रहो ग्रहपतिर्वरः। अत्रिरत्र्या नमस्कर्ता मृगबाणार्पणोऽनघः॥

candraḥ sūryaḥ śaniḥ keturgraho grahapatirvaraḥ| atriratryā namaskartā mṛgabāṇārpaṇo'naghaḥ||

You are the Moon, you are the sun, you are the planet Saturn, you are the descending node (of the Moon), you are the ascending node. You are Mangala (Mars), and you are Brihaspati (Jupiter) and Shukra (Venus), you are Buddha (mercury), you are the worshipper of Atri's wife, you are he who shot his arrow at Sacrifice when sacrifice fled from his anger in the form of a deer. You are sinless.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.36

महातपा घोरतपा अदीनो दीनसाधकः। संवत्सरकरो मन्त्रः प्रमाणं परमं तपः॥

mahātapā ghoratapā adīno dīnasādhakaḥ| saṃvatsarakaro mantraḥ pramāṇaṃ paramaṃ tapaḥ||

You possess penances by which you can create the universe. You possess penances by which you can destroy the universe. You are high-minded. You satisfy the wishes of all who dedicate themselves to you. You are the maker of the year. You are Mantra. You are the authority for all acts. You are the highest Penance.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.37

योगी योज्यो महाबीजो महारेता महाबलः। सुवर्ण रेताः सर्वज्ञः सुबीजो बीजवाहनः॥

yogī yojyo mahābījo mahāretā mahābalaḥ| suvarṇa retāḥ sarvajñaḥ subījo bījavāhanaḥ||

You are given to Yoga. You are he who merges himself in Brahman. You are the great seed. You display what is unmanifest as this manifest form in which the universe exists. You have infinite inight. You are he whose seed is gold. You are omniscient. You are the cause of all things. You are he who has the seed of action for the incans of going from this world to the other and the other to this,

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.38

दशबाहुस्त्वनिमिषो नीलकण्ठ उमापतिः। विश्वरूपः स्वयं श्रेष्ठो बलबीरोऽवलो गणः॥

daśabāhustvanimiṣo nīlakaṇṭha umāpatiḥ| viśvarūpaḥ svayaṃ śreṣṭho balabīro'valo gaṇaḥ||

You have ten arms. You have winkless cyes. You have a blue throat. You are the husband of Uma. You are the origin of all the infinite forms that are in the universe. You are he whose superiority is due to yourself. You arc hero in power. You are inert matter. You are all the topics of enquiry.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.39

गणकर्ता गणपतिदिग्वासाः काम एव च। मन्त्रवित् परमो मन्त्रः सर्वभावकरो हरः॥

gaṇakartā gaṇapatidigvāsāḥ kāma eva ca| mantravit paramo mantraḥ sarvabhāvakaro haraḥ||

You are the ordainer and governor of the topics. You are the chief of those beings who serve you and are called Ganas. You cover infinite space. You are Kama the god of love. You are conversant with Mantras. You are the highest Mantra. You are the cause of the universe. You are the universal destroyer.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.40

कमण्डलुधरो धन्वी बाणहस्तः कपालवान्। अशनी शतघ्री खड्डी पट्टिशी चायुधी महान्॥

kamaṇḍaludharo dhanvī bāṇahastaḥ kapālavān| aśanī śataghrī khaḍḍī paṭṭiśī cāyudhī mahān||

You carry in one of your hands the calabash. In another you hold the bow. In another you have arrows. In another you carry a skull. You carry the thunderbolt. You are armed with the shataghni. You are armed with the sword. You hold the battle-axe. You are armed with the Shula (trident). You are worshipful.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.41

स्रवहस्तः सुरूपश्च तेजस्तेजस्करो निधिः। उष्णीषी च सुवक्त्रश्च उदग्रो विनतस्तथा॥

sravahastaḥ surūpaśca tejastejaskaro nidhiḥ| uṣṇīṣī ca suvaktraśca udagro vinatastathā||

You have the sacrificial ladles in one of your hands. You have beautiful form, you are gifted with abundant energy. You give most lavishly all that tends to adorn those who are devoted to you. You put on a turban on your head. You have a beautiful face. You are he who is full of splendour and power. You are he who is humble and modest.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.42

दीर्घश्च हरिकेशश्च सुतीर्थः कृष्ण एव च। शृगालरूपः सिद्धार्थो मुण्डः सर्वशुभङ्करः॥

dīrghaśca harikeśaśca sutīrthaḥ kṛṣṇa eva ca| śṛgālarūpaḥ siddhārtho muṇḍaḥ sarvaśubhaṅkaraḥ||

You are exceedingly tall. You are he who has the senses for your rays. You are the greatest of preceptors. You are Supreme Brahma, You are he who took the shape of a jackal (for consoling a Brahmana who insulted by a rich Vaishya, had deterinined to commit suicide. You are he whose objects all become fruitful of themselves. You are one who has a bald head. You are one who does good to all.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.43

अजश्च बहुरूपश्च गन्धधारी कपद्यपि। ऊर्ध्वरेता ऊर्ध्वलिङ्ग ऊर्ध्वशायी नभःस्थल॥

ajaśca bahurūpaśca gandhadhārī kapadyapi| ūrdhvaretā ūrdhvaliṅga ūrdhvaśāyī nabhaḥsthala||

You are unborn. You have numberless forms. You have all sorts of fragrance on your body. The matted locks on your head had sucked up the River Ganga when it first dropped from heaven. You are the giver of sovereignty. You are a Brahmacharin without having ever neglected the rigid vow of celibacy. You are famous for your sexual continence. You always lie on your back. You live in power.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.44

त्रिजटी चीरवासाश्च रुद्रः सेनापतिर्विभुः। अहश्चरो नक्तंचरस्तिग्ममन्युः सुवर्चसः॥

trijaṭī cīravāsāśca rudraḥ senāpatirvibhuḥ| ahaścaro naktaṃcarastigmamanyuḥ suvarcasaḥ||

You have three matted locks on your head. You are he who is clad in rags. You are Rudra. You are the celestial commander-in-chief and you are all pervading. You are he who moves about during the day. You are he who moves about in the night. You are of dreadful anger. You are endued with effulgence. THEY ARE CHUAT TUNCT:1

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.45

सिंहशार्दूलरूपश्च आर्द्रचर्माबरावृतः॥

siṃhaśārdūlarūpaśca ārdracarmābarāvṛtaḥ||

You are the destroyer of the powerful Asura who had come in the form of an infuriate elephant for destroying the sacred city of Varanasi. You are the destroyer of Daityas oppressing the universe. You are Kala or Time which is th“ universal destroyer. You are the supreme ordainer of the universe. You are a raine of qualification. You are of the form of the lion and the tiger. You are he who is clad in an elephant skin.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.46

कालयोगी महानादः सर्वकामश्चतुष्पथः। निशाचर: प्रेतचारी भूतचारी महेश्वरः॥

kālayogī mahānādaḥ sarvakāmaścatuṣpathaḥ| niśācara: pretacārī bhūtacārī maheśvaraḥ||

You are the Yogin who deceives Time by getting over its irresistible influence. You are the original sound. You are the fruition of all desires. You are he who is worshipped in four ways. You are a night ranger. You are he who walks in the company of spirits. You are he wlio walks in the company of ghostly beings. You are the Supreme Lord of even Indra and the other deities.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.47

बहुभूतो बहुधरः स्वर्भानुरमितो गतिः। नृत्यप्रियो नित्यन” नर्तकः सर्वलालसः॥

bahubhūto bahudharaḥ svarbhānuramito gatiḥ| nṛtyapriyo nityana” nartakaḥ sarvalālasaḥ||

You are he who has multiplied himself infinitely in the form of all existent and non existent things. You are the upholder of Mahat and all other compounds of the five primal elements. You are the primeval Ignorance or that is known by the name of Rahu. You are infinite. You are the supreme End of the liberated. You are fond of dancing. You are he who makes others dance. You are the friend of the universe.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.48

घोरो महातपाः पाशो नित्यो गिरिरुहो नभः। सहस्रहस्तो विजयो व्यवसायो ह्यतन्द्रितः॥

ghoro mahātapāḥ pāśo nityo giriruho nabhaḥ| sahasrahasto vijayo vyavasāyo hyatandritaḥ||

You are he whose aspect is calm and mild. You are endued with penances which can create and destroy the universe. You are he who fetters all creatures with your illusion. You are he who is above destruction. You are he who lived on a mountain. You are above all bonds and are unattached to all things, like Space. You have a thousand arins. You are victory. You are that perseverance which brings on success or victory. You are without idleness or procrastination which interferes with persevering activity.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.49

अधर्षणो धर्षणात्मा यज्ञहा कामनाशकः। दक्षयागापहारी च सुसहो मध्यमस्तथा॥

adharṣaṇo dharṣaṇātmā yajñahā kāmanāśakaḥ| dakṣayāgāpahārī ca susaho madhyamastathā||

You are brave. You are fear. You are he who put a stop to Bali's sacrifice. You gratify the desires of all your devotees. You are the destroyer of Daksha's sacrifice. You are amiable. You are slightly amiable.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.50

तेजोऽपहारी बलहा मुदितोऽर्थोऽजितोऽवरः। गम्भीरघोषो गम्भीरो गम्भीरबलवाहनः॥

tejo'pahārī balahā mudito'rtho'jito'varaḥ| gambhīraghoṣo gambhīro gambhīrabalavāhanaḥ||

You are exceedingly fierce and rob all creatures of their energy. You are the destroyer of the Asura Vala. You are always cheerful. You are of the form of riches which is coveted by all. You have never been defeated. There is none more worshipful than you. You are he who emits deep roars. You are that which is so deep that no one can measure it. You are he whose power and the might of whose companions and bull have never been gauged by anybody.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.51

न्यग्रोधरूपो न्यग्रोधो वृक्षकर्णस्थितिर्विभुः। सुतीक्ष्णदशनश्चैव महाकायो महाननः॥

nyagrodharūpo nyagrodho vṛkṣakarṇasthitirvibhuḥ| sutīkṣṇadaśanaścaiva mahākāyo mahānanaḥ||

You are the tree of the world. You are the banian, You are he who sleeps on a banian leaf when the universe, after dissolution, becomes one infinite sheet of water. You are he who shows mercy to all worshippers, assuming as you like the forın of Hari or Hara or Ganesha or Arka or Agni or Wind etc. You have proportions. You have a mouth vast enough to swallow the universe at once.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.52

विष्वक्सेनो हरियज्ञः संयुगापीडवाहनः। तीक्ष्णतापश्च हर्यश्व: सहाय: chchlufaa114411

viṣvakseno hariyajñaḥ saṃyugāpīḍavāhanaḥ| tīkṣṇatāpaśca haryaśva: sahāya: chchlufaa114411

You are he whose followers are worshipped everywhere. You are he who removed all the fears of the gods when the prince of elephants had to be captured. You are the seed of the universe. You are he who has the same bull for your carriers that forins again the emblem on his banner in battle. You have Agni for your soul. You are the sun who has green horses yoked to his car. You are the friend of the individual soul. You are he who is conversant with the proper time for the performance of all religious rites.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.53

विष्णुप्रसादितो यज्ञः समुद्रो वडवामुखः। हुताशनसहायश्च प्रशान्तात्मा हुताशनः॥

viṣṇuprasādito yajñaḥ samudro vaḍavāmukhaḥ| hutāśanasahāyaśca praśāntātmā hutāśanaḥ||

You are he to whom Vishnu had paid his adorations. You are Vishnu. You are the ocean. You are the Mare's head that ranges within the ocean, ceaselessly emitting fire and drinking the saline waters as if they were sacrificial butter. You are wind, the friend of Agni. You are of tranquil soul like the ocean which reinains at rest and unmoved by the mildest air. You are Agni that drinks the libations of clarified butter poured in sacrifices with the help of Mantras.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.54

उग्रतेजा महातेजा जन्यो विजयकालवित्। ज्योतिषामयनं सिद्धिः सर्वविग्रह एव च॥

ugratejā mahātejā janyo vijayakālavit| jyotiṣāmayanaṃ siddhiḥ sarvavigraha eva ca||

You are he whom it is difficult to approach. You are he whose effulgence spreads over the infinite universe. You are expert in battle. You are well conversant with the time when one should engage in battle so that victory may be won. You are that science which deals with the motions of heavenly bodies. You are of the form of success or victory. You have a body for all time.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.55

शिखी मुण्डी जटी ज्वाली मूर्तिजो मूर्द्धगो बली। वेणवी पणवी ताली खली कालकटंकटः॥

śikhī muṇḍī jaṭī jvālī mūrtijo mūrddhago balī| veṇavī paṇavī tālī khalī kālakaṭaṃkaṭaḥ||

You are a house holder for you have a tuft of hair on your head; you are a Sannyasin for your head is bald; you have matted locks on your head; you are known for your fiery rays; you are he who appears in the sky of the heart encased in the body of every creature; you are he who enters into the brain of every creature; you bear the wrinkles of age; you carry the bamboo flute; you have also the tabour; you possess the musical instrument called Tali; you have the wooden mortar used for husking grain; you are he who covers that illusion which covers Yama.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.56

नक्षत्रविग्रहमतिर्गुणबुद्धिर्लयोऽगमः। प्रजापतिर्विश्वबाहुर्विभागः सर्वगोऽमुखः॥

nakṣatravigrahamatirguṇabuddhirlayo'gamaḥ| prajāpatirviśvabāhurvibhāgaḥ sarvago'mukhaḥ||

You are an astrologer because your understanding is always directed towards the motion of the wheel of Time which is made up of the luminaries in the sky; you are the individual soul whose understanding is directed to things that are the outcome of the qualities of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas; you are that in which all things merge when dissolutions sets in; you are stable and fixed, there being nothing in you which is subject to change or mutation of any sort, you are the Lord of all creatures; your arms extend all over the great universe; you appear in numberless forms which are but portions of yourself, you pervade all things; you have no mouth.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.57

विमोचनः सुसरणो हिरण्यकवचोद्भवः। मेदजो बलचारी च महीचारी स्रुतस्तथा॥

vimocanaḥ susaraṇo hiraṇyakavacodbhavaḥ| medajo balacārī ca mahīcārī srutastathā||

You are he who frees creatures froin the fetters of the world; you are easily attainable; you are he who appeared with a golden mail; you are he who appears in the phallic emblem; you are he who roams in the forests in search of fowls and animals; you are he who roams over the entire Earth; you are omnipresent.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.58

सर्वतूर्यनिनादी च सर्वातोद्यपरिग्रहः। व्यालरूपो गुहावासी गुहो माली तरङ्गवित्॥

sarvatūryaninādī ca sarvātodyaparigrahaḥ| vyālarūpo guhāvāsī guho mālī taraṅgavit||

You are the blare of all the trumpets blown in the three worlds; you have all creatures for your relatives; you are of the forın of a snake; you live in mountain caves; you are at one with the commander-in-chief of the celestials; you wear garlands of flowers, you are he who enjoys the happiness which originates from the possession of earthly objects.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.59

त्रिदशस्त्रिकालधृक् कर्मसर्वबन्धविमोचनः। बन्धनस्त्वसुरेन्द्राणां युधि शत्रुविनाशनः॥

tridaśastrikāladhṛk karmasarvabandhavimocanaḥ| bandhanastvasurendrāṇāṃ yudhi śatruvināśanaḥ||

You are he from whom all creatures have got their three states of birth, existence and destruction; you uphold all things which exist or occur in the three stages of Time viz., the past, the Present, and the Future; you yourself free creatures from the effects of all pristine decds as well as the present ones and from all the bonds of Ignorance and Desire; you are the binder of Asura chiefs; you are the slayer of focs in battle.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.60

सांख्यप्रसादो दुर्वासाः सर्वसाधुनिषेवितः। प्रस्कन्दनो विभागज्ञोऽतुल्यो यज्ञविभागवित्॥

sāṃkhyaprasādo durvāsāḥ sarvasādhuniṣevitaḥ| praskandano vibhāgajño'tulyo yajñavibhāgavit||

You are attainable by knowledge alone; you are Durvasas; you are he who is served and worshipped by all the righteous; you are he who brings about the fall of even Brahman and the others; you are he who gives to all creatures the one share of joy and sorrow that each deserves according to his own deeds; you are peerless; you are well conversant with the shares which are given and appropriated in sacrifices. date: dart gathi aras :1

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.61

हैमो हेमकरोऽयज्ञः सर्वधारी धरोत्तमः॥

haimo hemakaro'yajñaḥ sarvadhārī dharottamaḥ||

You live everywhere; you wander everywhere; you have wretched clothes; you are Vasava; you are immortal; you are at one with the Himavat mountains; you are the maker of pure gold; you are without acts; you uphold in yourself the fruits of all acts; you are the foremost of all upholder.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.62

लोहिताक्षो महाक्षश्च विजयाक्षो विशारदः। संग्रहो निग्रहः कर्ता सर्पचीरनिवासनः॥

lohitākṣo mahākṣaśca vijayākṣo viśāradaḥ| saṃgraho nigrahaḥ kartā sarpacīranivāsanaḥ||

You have bloody eyes; you have eyes whose vision extends over over the infinite universe; you have a car whose wheels are ever victorious, you are greatly learned; you are he who accepts you devotees for your servants; you are he who restrains and subjugates your senses; you are he who acts; you put on clothes whose warp and woof are inade of snakes.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.63

मुख्योऽमुख्यश्च देहश्च काहलिः सर्वकामदः। सर्वकालप्रसादश्च सुबलो बलरूपधृक्॥

mukhyo'mukhyaśca dehaśca kāhaliḥ sarvakāmadaḥ| sarvakālaprasādaśca subalo balarūpadhṛk||

You are Supreme; you are he who is the lowest of the celestials; you are he who is wellgrown; you have the musical instrument called Kahala; you are the giver of every wish; you are the grace personified in all the three stages of time, viz., the Past, the Present, and the Future; you are endued with power which is always well spent; you are he who had assumed the form of Balarama.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.64

सर्वकामवरश्चैव सर्वदः सर्वतोमुखः। आकाशनिर्विरूपश्च निपाती ह्यवशः खगः॥

sarvakāmavaraścaiva sarvadaḥ sarvatomukhaḥ| ākāśanirvirūpaśca nipātī hyavaśaḥ khagaḥ||

You are the foremost of all coveted things, being Liberation or the highest of all ends of creatures; you are the giver of all things; your face is turned towards all directions; you are he from whom various creatures have originated even as all forms have originated from space or are modifications of that primal element; you are he who falls into the pit called body; you are he who is helpless; you live in the sky of the heart. stoutsurferit aexf94: Hati

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MBh 9 17.65

वसुवेगो महावेगो मनोवेगो निशाचरः॥

vasuvego mahāvego manovego niśācaraḥ||

You are of terrific form; you are the Deity called Anshu; you are the companion of Anshu and are called Aditya; you are endued with innumerable rays; you are possessed of dazzling effulgence; you are fleet like the Wind; you have speed greater than that of the Wind; you are fleet like the mind; you enjoy all things, being invested with Ignorance.

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MBh 9 17.66

सर्ववासी श्रियावासी उपदेशकरोऽकरः। मुनिरात्मनिरालोकः सम्भग्नश्च सहस्रदः॥

sarvavāsī śriyāvāsī upadeśakaro'karaḥ| munirātmanirālokaḥ sambhagnaśca sahasradaḥ||

You live in every body; you live with prosperity as your companion; you are he who imparts knowledge and instruction; you are he who delivers instruction silently; you are he who observes the vow of silence; you are he who passes out of the body for loO king at the soul; you are he that is well worshipped; you are the giver of thousands.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.67

पक्षी च पक्षरूपश्च अतिदीप्तो विशाम्पतिः। उन्मादो मदनः कामो ह्यश्वत्थोऽर्थकरो यशः॥

pakṣī ca pakṣarūpaśca atidīpto viśāmpatiḥ| unmādo madanaḥ kāmo hyaśvattho'rthakaro yaśaḥ||

You are the king of birds; you are the friend who gives aid; you are possessed of great cffulgence; you are the Lord of all created beings; you are he who excites the appetites; you are the god of love; you are of the form of lovely women who are coveted by all; you are the tree of the world; you are the king of riches; you are the giver of fame.

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MBh 9 17.68

वामदेवश्च वामश्च प्राग् दक्षिणश्च वामनः। सिद्धयोगी महर्षिश्च सिद्धार्थ: सिद्धसाधकः॥

vāmadevaśca vāmaśca prāg dakṣiṇaśca vāmanaḥ| siddhayogī maharṣiśca siddhārtha: siddhasādhakaḥ||

You are god who distributes to all creatures the fruits of their deeds; you are yourself those fruits which you distribute; you are the most ancient; you are competent to cover with a single footstep of yours all the three worlds; you are the dwarf who deceived the Asura king Vali; you are the Yogin crowned with success; you are a great Rishi; you are one whose objects become always successful; you are a Sannyasin. FARNES Frau Fauunt grou:

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MBh 9 17.69

महासेनो विशाखश्च षष्टिभागो गवां पतिः॥

mahāseno viśākhaśca ṣaṣṭibhāgo gavāṃ patiḥ||

You are he who is adorned with the marks of the mendicant order, you are he who is without such marks; you are he who is above the usages of the mendicant order; you are he who assures all creatures from every sort of fear; you are without any passions; you are the commander-in-chief of the celestial army; you are that Vishakha who sprang from the person of the celestial commander-in-chief when Indra hurled his thunderbolt at him; you are he who enjoys the sixty subjects or heads of objects in the universe; you are the master of the senses.

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MBh 9 17.70

वज्रहस्तश्च विष्कम्भी चमूस्तम्भन एव च। वृत्तावृत्तकरस्तालो मधुर्मधुकलोचनः॥

vajrahastaśca viṣkambhī camūstambhana eva ca| vṛttāvṛttakarastālo madhurmadhukalocanaḥ||

You are he who is armed with the thunder bolt; you are infinite; you are the stupefier of Daitya armies on the battlefield; you are he who moves his car in circles among his own soldiers and who makes similar circles among the focs and devastating them returns safe and sound; you are he who knows the lowest depth of the world's ocean; you are Madhu; you have eyes whose colour resembles that of honey.

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MBh 9 17.71

वाचस्पत्यो वाजसनो नित्यमाश्रमपूजितः। ब्रह्मचारी लोकचारी सर्वचारी विचारवित्॥

vācaspatyo vājasano nityamāśramapūjitaḥ| brahmacārī lokacārī sarvacārī vicāravit||

You are he who has taken birth after Brihaspati; you are he who does the acts which priests have to do in sacrifices, you are he who is always worshipped by persons of various modes of life; you are devoted to Brahma; you roam in the habitations of men in the world; you pervade all beings; you are he who knows truth.

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MBh 9 17.72

ईशान ईश्वरः कालो निशाचारी पिनाकवान्। निमित्तस्थो निमित्तं च नन्दिनन्दिकरो हरिः॥

īśāna īśvaraḥ kālo niśācārī pinākavān| nimittastho nimittaṃ ca nandinandikaro hariḥ||

You know and guide every heart; you are he who overspreads the entire universe; you are he who collects or stores the good and bad deeds of all creatures in order to distribute the fruits thereof; you are he who lives during even the night that follows the universal dissolution; you are the holder of the bow called Pinaka; you live in even the Daityas whence are the marks of your arrows; you are the author of prosperity; you are the powerful monkey who helped Vishnu in the incarnation of Rama in his expedition against Ravana.

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MBh 9 17.73

नन्दीश्वरश्च नन्दी च नन्दनो नन्दिवर्द्धनः। भगहारी निहन्ता च कालो ब्रह्मा पितामहः॥

nandīśvaraśca nandī ca nandano nandivarddhanaḥ| bhagahārī nihantā ca kālo brahmā pitāmahaḥ||

You are the master of those Ganas who are your associates; you are each member of those various Ganas; you are he who gladdens all creatures; you are the enhancer of the joys of all; you take away the sovereignty and prosperity of even such high beings as Indra and others; you are the universal destroyer in the form of Death; you are he who lives in the sixty four Kalas; you are very great; you are the grandfather

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MBh 9 17.74

चतुर्मुखो महालिङ्गश्चारुलिङ्गस्तथैव च। लिङ्गाध्यक्षः सुराध्यक्षो योगाध्यक्षो युगावहः॥

caturmukho mahāliṅgaścāruliṅgastathaiva ca| liṅgādhyakṣaḥ surādhyakṣo yogādhyakṣo yugāvahaḥ||

You are the supreme phallic emblem which is worshipped by both gods and Asuras; you are of agreeable and beautiful features; you are he who makes all beings comprehend the various sorts of proofs which exist as evidence of all ideas and notions; you are the Lord of vision and the other proofs of all ideas derived from the senses; you are the Lord of Yoga.

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MBh 9 17.75

बीजाध्यक्षो बीजकर्ता अध्यात्मानुगतो बलः इतिहास: सकल्पश्च गौतमोऽथ निशाकरः॥

bījādhyakṣo bījakartā adhyātmānugato balaḥ itihāsa: sakalpaśca gautamo'tha niśākaraḥ||

You are the Lord of seeds; you are the original cause of such seeds; you act in the ways that have been pointed out in the scriptures beginning with those which deal with the Soul; you are he in whom live power and the other qualities; you are the Mahabharata and other historical works; you are the treatises called Mimansa; you are Gautama; you are the author of the great work on Grammar naned after the Moon.

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MBh 9 17.76

दम्भो ह्यदम्भो वैदम्भो वश्यो वशकरः कलिः। लोककर्ता पशुपतिर्महाकर्ता ह्यनौषधः॥

dambho hyadambho vaidambho vaśyo vaśakaraḥ kaliḥ| lokakartā paśupatirmahākartā hyanauṣadhaḥ||

You are he who punishes his enemies; you are he whom none can punish; you are he who is sincere in all his religious acts and observances, you are he who becomes obedient to those who are devoted to you; you are he who can subdue others; you are he who foments quarrels among the gods and the Asuras; you are he who has created the fourteen worlds; you are the protector and cherisher of all Beings beginning from Brahman and ending with the lowest forms of vegetable life; you are the Creator of even the five principal elements, you are he who never enjoys anything.

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MBh 9 17.77

अक्षरं परमं ब्रह्म बलवच्छक एव च। नीतिमुनीतिः शुद्धात्मा शुद्धो मान्यो गतागतः॥

akṣaraṃ paramaṃ brahma balavacchaka eva ca| nītimunītiḥ śuddhātmā śuddho mānyo gatāgataḥ||

You are free from decay; you are the highest form of happiness; you are a deity proud of his power; you are Shakra; you are the punishment described in treatises on Politics and inflicted on offenders; you are the tyranny which prevails over the world; you are of pure Soul; you are stainless, you are worthy of adoration; you are the world that appears and disappear ceaselessly.

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MBh 9 17.78

बहुप्रसादः सुस्वप्नो दर्पणोऽथ त्वमित्रजित्। वेदकारो मन्त्रकारो विद्वान् समरमर्दनः॥

bahuprasādaḥ susvapno darpaṇo'tha tvamitrajit| vedakāro mantrakāro vidvān samaramardanaḥ||

You are he whose favour is of the largest measure; you are he who has good dreams; you are a mirror in which the universe is reflected; you are he who has subjugated of all internal and external enemy; you are the maker of the Veda; you are the maker of the sayings contained in the Tantras and the Puranas and which are embodied in human language; you are highly learned; you are the grinder of enemies in battle.

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MBh 9 17.79

महामेघनिवासी च महाघोरो वशी करः। अग्निज्वालो महाज्वालो अतिधूम्रो हुतो हविः॥

mahāmeghanivāsī ca mahāghoro vaśī karaḥ| agnijvālo mahājvālo atidhūmro huto haviḥ||

You are he who lives in the dreadful clouds that appear at the time of the universal dissolution; you are most terrible; you are he who succeeds in subjugating all persons and all things; you are the great Destroyer; you are he who has fire for his energy; you are he whose energy is more powerful than fire; you are the Yuga-fire that consumes all things you are he who is capable of being pleased by means of sacrificial libations; you are water and other liquids that are poured in sacrifices with the help of Mantras.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.80

वषणः शङ्करो नित्यं वर्चस्वी धूमकेतनः। नीलस्तथाङ्गलुब्धश्च शोभनो निरवग्रहः॥

vaṣaṇaḥ śaṅkaro nityaṃ varcasvī dhūmaketanaḥ| nīlastathāṅgalubdhaśca śobhano niravagrahaḥ||

You are in the form of the god of Righteousness, the scatterer of the fruits of acts good and bad; you are the giver of happiness; you are always gifted with effulgence; you are of the form of fire; you are emerald-hued; you are always present in the phallic emblem; you are the source of blessedness; you can never be defeated in the pursuit of your objects.

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MBh 9 17.81

स्वस्तिदः स्वस्तिभावश्च भागी भागकरो लघुः। उत्सङ्गश्च महाङ्गश्च महागर्भपरायणः॥

svastidaḥ svastibhāvaśca bhāgī bhāgakaro laghuḥ| utsaṅgaśca mahāṅgaśca mahāgarbhaparāyaṇaḥ||

You are the giver of blessings; you are of the form of blessedness; you are he to whom is given a share of sacrificial offerings; you are the distributor of sacrificial offerings; you are gifted with great speed; you are he who is dissociated from all things; you are he who is possessed of the most powerful limb; you are he who is employed in the act of generation.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.82

कृष्णवर्णः सुवर्णश्च इन्द्रियं सर्वदेहिनाम्। महापादो महाहस्तो महाकायो महायशाः॥

kṛṣṇavarṇaḥ suvarṇaśca indriyaṃ sarvadehinām| mahāpādo mahāhasto mahākāyo mahāyaśāḥ||

You are of a dark hue; you are of a white complexion; you are the senses of all embodied creatures; you have huge feet; you have huge hands; you are of huge body; you have wide extending fame.

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MBh 9 17.83

महामूर्धा महामात्रो महानेत्रो निशालयः। महान्तको महाकर्णो महोष्ठश्च महाहनुः॥

mahāmūrdhā mahāmātro mahānetro niśālayaḥ| mahāntako mahākarṇo mahoṣṭhaśca mahāhanuḥ||

you have a huge head; you are of huge proportion; you are of vast vision; you are the home of the darkness of ignorance; you are the Destroyer; you are possessed of huge ears; you have huge lips; you are he who has vast cheeks.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.84

महानासो महाकम्बुर्महाग्रीवः श्मशानभाक्। महावक्षा महोरस्को ह्यन्तरात्मा मृगालयः॥

mahānāso mahākamburmahāgrīvaḥ śmaśānabhāk| mahāvakṣā mahorasko hyantarātmā mṛgālayaḥ||

You have a huge nose; you are of a vast throat; you have a vast neck; you are he who tears the bond of society; you have a vast chest; you have a vast bosom; you are the inner soul which lives in all creatures, you have a deer on your lap.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.85

लम्बनो लम्बितोष्ठश्च महामायः पयोनिधिः। महादन्तो महादंष्ट्रो महाजिह्वो महामुखः॥

lambano lambitoṣṭhaśca mahāmāyaḥ payonidhiḥ| mahādanto mahādaṃṣṭro mahājihvo mahāmukhaḥ||

You are he from whom numberless worlds hang down like fruits hanging down from a Irce; you are he who stretches his lips at the time of the universal dissolution for devouring the universe: you are the ocean of milk; you have huge teeth; you have huge jaws; you have a huge tongue; you have a huge mouth.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.86

महानखो महारोमा महाकेशो महाजटः। प्रसन्नश्च प्रसादश्च प्रत्ययो गिरिसाधनः॥

mahānakho mahāromā mahākeśo mahājaṭaḥ| prasannaśca prasādaśca pratyayo girisādhanaḥ||

You have big nails; you have large hairs; you have very long hairs; you have a big stomach; you have matted locks of great length; you are ever cheerful; you are of the form of grace; you are of the form of belief; you are he who has mountains for his bow.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.87

स्नेहनोऽस्नेहनश्चैव अजितश्च महामुनिः। वृक्षाकारो वृक्षकेतुरनलो वायुवाहनः॥

snehano'snehanaścaiva ajitaśca mahāmuniḥ| vṛkṣākāro vṛkṣaketuranalo vāyuvāhanaḥ||

You are he who is full of affection to all creatures like a parent towards his children; you are he who has no affection; you are unvanquished; you are highly devoted to (Yoga) meditation; you are of the form of the tree of the world; you are he who is marked out by tree of the world; you are never satiated with eating; you are he who has the Wind for your vehicle for going from piace to place.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.88

गण्डली मेस्थामा च देवाधिपतिरेव च। अथर्वशीर्ष: सामास्य ऋक्सहस्रामितेक्षणः॥

gaṇḍalī mesthāmā ca devādhipatireva ca| atharvaśīrṣa: sāmāsya ṛksahasrāmitekṣaṇaḥ||

You are he who ranges over hills and hillocks; you are he who lives on the mountains of Meru; you are the king of the celestials; you have the Atharvans for your head; you have the Samans for your mouth; you have the thousand Riches for your immeasurable eyes.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.89

यजुःपादभुजो गुह्यः प्रकाशो जङ्गमस्तथा। अमोघार्थः प्रसादश्च अभिगम्यः सुदर्शनः॥

yajuḥpādabhujo guhyaḥ prakāśo jaṅgamastathā| amoghārthaḥ prasādaśca abhigamyaḥ sudarśanaḥ||

You have the Yajushes for your feet and hands; you are the Upanishads; you are the rituals; you are the mobile; you are he whose solicitations are never unfulfilled; you are he who is always bent on favouring; you are he who is of beautiful forin.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.90

उपकारः प्रियः सर्वः कनकः काञ्चनन्छविः। नाभिनन्दिकरो भावः पुष्करस्थपतिः स्थिरः॥

upakāraḥ priyaḥ sarvaḥ kanakaḥ kāñcananchaviḥ| nābhinandikaro bhāvaḥ puṣkarasthapatiḥ sthiraḥ||

You are of the form of the good that one does to another; you are that which is dear; you are he who always advances towards your devotees; you are gold and other precious metals held dear by all; your effulgence is like that of burnished gold; you are the navel; you are he who makes the fruits of sacrifices grow; you are of the form of that faith and devotion which the pious have for sacrifices; you are the maker of the universe; you are the immobile.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.91

द्वादशस्त्रासनश्चाद्यो यज्ञो यज्ञसमाहितः। नक्तं कलिश्च कालश्च मकरः कालपूजितः॥

dvādaśastrāsanaścādyo yajño yajñasamāhitaḥ| naktaṃ kaliśca kālaśca makaraḥ kālapūjitaḥ||

You are the twelve states through which a person passes; you are he who causes fear; you are the beginning of all things; you are he who unites Individual Soul with Supreme Brahima through Yoga; you are at one with that yoga which brings about such a union between the Individual Soul and Supreme Brahma; you are unmanifest; you are the presiding god of the fourth age.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.92

सगणो गणकारश्च भूतवाहनसारथिः। भस्मशयो भस्मगोप्ता भस्मभूतस्तरुर्गणः॥

sagaṇo gaṇakāraśca bhūtavāhanasārathiḥ| bhasmaśayo bhasmagoptā bhasmabhūtastarurgaṇaḥ||

You are eternal Time; you are of the form of the Tortoise; you are adored by the Destroyer himself.

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MBh 9 17.93

लोकपालस्तथालोको महात्मा सर्वपूजितः। शुक्लस्त्रिशुक्लः सम्पन्नः शुचिर्भूतनिषेवितः॥

lokapālastathāloko mahātmā sarvapūjitaḥ| śuklastriśuklaḥ sampannaḥ śucirbhūtaniṣevitaḥ||

You live in the midst company; you admit your devotees as members of your Gana; you have Brahman himself for the driver of your car; you sleep on ashes; your protect the universe with ashes; you are he whose body is made of ashes, you are the tree that grants the fruition of all wishes; you are of the form of those who make up your Gana.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.94

आश्रमस्थः क्रियावस्थो विश्वकर्ममतिर्वरः। विशालशाखस्ताम्रोष्ठो ह्यम्बुजाल: सुनिश्चलः॥

āśramasthaḥ kriyāvastho viśvakarmamatirvaraḥ| viśālaśākhastāmroṣṭho hyambujāla: suniścalaḥ||

You are the protector of the fourteen regions; you are above all the regions; you are full; you are worshipped by all creatures; you arc white; you are he who has perfectly pure body, speech and mind; you are he who has attained to that purity of existence which is called Liberation; you are he who is incapable of being sullied by impurity of any sort; you are he who has been attained to by the great preceptors of old.

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MBh 9 17.95

कपिलः 1997: शुक्ल आयुश्चैव परोऽपरः। गन्धर्वो ह्यदितिस्तार्क्ष्यः सुविज्ञेयः सुशारदः॥

kapilaḥ 1997: śukla āyuścaiva paro'paraḥ| gandharvo hyaditistārkṣyaḥ suvijñeyaḥ suśāradaḥ||

You live in the form of Righteousness or duty in the four modes of life; you are that Righteousness which is of the form of rites and sacrifices; you are of the form of that skill which the Divine architect possesses; you are he who is worshipped as the primeval form of the universe; you have huge arms; your lips are of a coppery colour; you are of the form of the vast waters that are contained in the Ocean; you are highly stable and fixed. are are

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MBh 9 17.96

परश्वधायुधो देवो अनुकारी सुबान्धवः। तुम्बवीणो महाक्रोध ऊर्ध्वरेता जलेशयः॥

paraśvadhāyudho devo anukārī subāndhavaḥ| tumbavīṇo mahākrodha ūrdhvaretā jaleśayaḥ||

You are Kapila; you are brown; you are all the hues whose mixture produces white; you are the period of life; you are ancient; you are recent; you are a Gandharva; you are the mother of the celestials in the form of Aditi; you are Garuda, the king of birds, born of Vinata by Kashyapa otherwise called Tarkshya; you capable of being comprehended easily; you are of excellent and agreeable speech.

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MBh 9 17.97

उग्रो वंशकरो वंशो वंशनादो ह्यनिन्दितः। सर्वाङ्गरूपो मायावी सुहृदो ह्यनिलोऽनलः।।१००।

ugro vaṃśakaro vaṃśo vaṃśanādo hyaninditaḥ| sarvāṅgarūpo māyāvī suhṛdo hyanilo'nalaḥ||100|

You are he who is armed with the battle axe; you are he that is desirous of victory; you hc who assists others il the accomplishment of their objects, you are an excellent friend; you are he who carries a lute made of two hollow gourds, you are of terrible anger; you have for your children beings higher than men and gods; you are of the form of that Vishnu who floats on the waters after the universal dissolution; you devour all things with great ferocity; you are he who procreates offspring; you are family and race, continuing from generation to generation; you are the blare that a bamboo flute emits; you are faultless; you are he whose limbs are all very beautiful; you are full of illusion; you do good to others without expecting any return; you are wind; you are fire.

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MBh 9 17.98

बन्धनो बन्धकर्ता च सुबन्धनविमोचनः। सयज्ञारिः सकामारिर्महादंष्ट्रो महायुधः॥

bandhano bandhakartā ca subandhanavimocanaḥ| sayajñāriḥ sakāmārirmahādaṃṣṭro mahāyudhaḥ||

You are the fetters of the world which bind Individual soul, you are the creator of those fetters; you are the tearer of such fetters; you are he who lives with even the Daityas; you live with those who are the enemies of all acts; you have huge teeth and powerful weapons.

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MBh 9 17.99

बहुधा निन्दितः शर्वः शङ्करः शङ्करोऽधनः। अमरेशो महादेवो विश्वदेवः सुरारिहा॥

bahudhā ninditaḥ śarvaḥ śaṅkaraḥ śaṅkaro'dhanaḥ| amareśo mahādevo viśvadevaḥ surārihā||

You are he who has been greatly censured; you are he who stupefied the Rishis living in are can the Daruka forest; you are he who did good to Chen your detractors viz., those Rishis living in the Daruka forest; you are he who removes all fears and who removing all the fears of those Rishis gave them Liberation; you are he who is no wealth; you are the king of the celestials; you are the greatest of the gods, you are an object of adoration with even Vishnu; you are the destroyer of those who are the enemics of the gods.

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MBh 9 17.100

अहिर्बुध्योऽनिलाभश्च चेकितानो हविस्तथा। अजैकपाच्च कापाली त्रिशंकुरजितः शिवः॥

ahirbudhyo'nilābhaśca cekitāno havistathā| ajaikapācca kāpālī triśaṃkurajitaḥ śivaḥ||

You are he who lives in the netherinost region; you invisible but be comprehended even as the wind which though invisible is perceived by every body; you are he whose knowledge extends to the bottom of everything and who knows the inner nature of all things; you are the object which is enjoyed by him who enjoys it; you are the Ajaikapad among the eleven Rudras; you are the king of the entire universe; you are of the form of all souls in the universe; you are he who is not subject to those three qualities; you are he who is above all attributes and is a state of pure existence which is incapable of being described with the help of any adjective of a language.

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MBh 9 17.101

धन्वन्तरिधूमकेतुः स्कन्दो वैश्रवणस्तथा। धाता शक्रश्च विष्णुश्च मित्रस्त्वष्टा ध्रुवो धरः॥

dhanvantaridhūmaketuḥ skando vaiśravaṇastathā| dhātā śakraśca viṣṇuśca mitrastvaṣṭā dhruvo dharaḥ||

You are the king of physicians called Dhanvantari; you are a comet; you are the celestial commander-in-chief called Skanda; you are the king of the Yakshas, called Kubera, who is your in separable companion and who is the king of all riches in the world; you are Dhatri; you are Shakra; you are Vishnu; you are Mitra; you are Tashirik; you are the Pole Star; you are the upholder all things, you are the Prabhava amongst the Vasus.

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MBh 9 17.102

प्रभावः सर्वगो वायुरर्यमा सविता रविः। विधाता च मान्धाता भूतभावनः॥

prabhāvaḥ sarvago vāyuraryamā savitā raviḥ| vidhātā ca māndhātā bhūtabhāvanaḥ||

You are the wind which can go everywhere you are Aryaman; you arc Savitri; you are Ravi; you are that ancient king of great celebrity known by the name of Ushangu; you are he who protects all creature in various ways; you are Mandhatri; you are he froin whom all creatures originate.

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MBh 9 17.103

विभुर्वर्णविभावी च सर्वकामगुणावहः। पद्मनाभो महागर्भश्चन्द्रवक्त्रोऽनिलोऽनलः॥

vibhurvarṇavibhāvī ca sarvakāmaguṇāvahaḥ| padmanābho mahāgarbhaścandravaktro'nilo'nalaḥ||

You are he who exists in various forms; you are he who makes the various colours exist in the universe; you are he who upholds all desires and all attributes; you are he who has the lotus on your navel; you are he within whose womb are numberless mighty creatures; you have a face beautiful as the moon; you are wind; you are fire.

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MBh 9 17.104

बलवांश्चोपशान्तश्च पुराणः पुण्यचञ्चुरी। कुरुकर्ता कुरुवासी कुरुभूतो गुणौषधः॥

balavāṃścopaśāntaśca purāṇaḥ puṇyacañcurī| kurukartā kuruvāsī kurubhūto guṇauṣadhaḥ||

You are possessed of great power; you are gifted with tranquillity of soul; you are old; you are he who is known with the help of Righteousness; you are Lakshmi; you are the maker of the field of action; you are he who resides in the field of action; you are the soul of the field of action; you are the medicine of the attributes of sovereignty and the others.

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MBh 9 17.105

सर्वाशयो दर्भचारी सर्वेषां प्राणिनां पतिः। देवदेवः सुखासक्तः सदसत्सर्वरलवित्॥

sarvāśayo darbhacārī sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ patiḥ| devadevaḥ sukhāsaktaḥ sadasatsarvaralavit||

All things lie in you; you are the master of all creatures having life-breaths; you are the god of the gods; you are he who is attached to happiness; you are existent; you are nonexistent; you are he who possesses the best of all things.

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MBh 9 17.106

कैलासगिरिवासी च हिमवद्रिरिसंश्रयः। कूलहारी कुलकर्ता बहुविद्यो बहुप्रदः॥

kailāsagirivāsī ca himavadririsaṃśrayaḥ| kūlahārī kulakartā bahuvidyo bahupradaḥ||

You are he who lives on the summit of Kailasa; you are he who goes to the inountains of Himavat; you carry away all things by you like a powerful current washing away trees and other objects standing on its banks ; you are the maker of Pushkara and other large lakes and receptacles of natural water; you are possessed of infinite knowledge you are the giver of infinite blessings.

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MBh 9 17.107

वणिजो वर्धकी वृक्षो बकुलश्चन्दनश्छदः। सारग्रीवो महात्रुरलोलश्च महौषधः॥

vaṇijo vardhakī vṛkṣo bakulaścandanaśchadaḥ| sāragrīvo mahātruralolaśca mahauṣadhaḥ||

You are a merchant; you are a carpenter; you are the trees; you are the tree called Bakula (Mimusops Elengi Linn); you are the sandal wood tree (Sanlaluin album Linn) you are the urce called Chechada (Alstonia Scholaris, syn. Echitis scholaris, Roxb); you are he whose neck is very strong; you are he whose shoulder-joint is huge; you are not restless; you are the principal herbs and plants with their produce.

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MBh 9 17.108

सिद्धार्थकारी सिद्धार्थश्छन्दोव्याकरणोत्तरः। सिंहनादः सिंहदंष्टः सिंहगः सिंहवाहनः॥

siddhārthakārī siddhārthaśchandovyākaraṇottaraḥ| siṃhanādaḥ siṃhadaṃṣṭaḥ siṃhagaḥ siṃhavāhanaḥ||

You are he who grants success upon others regarding the objects upon which they bestow their heart you are the correct conclusions of both the Vedas and Grammar, you are he who sends out lconine roars; you are endued with leonine fangs; you ride on the back of a lion for performing your journeys; you have a car drawn by a lion.

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MBh 9 17.109

प्रभावात्मा जगत्कालस्थालो लोकहितस्ततः। सारङ्गो नवचक्राङ्गः केतुमाली सभावनः॥

prabhāvātmā jagatkālasthālo lokahitastataḥ| sāraṅgo navacakrāṅgaḥ ketumālī sabhāvanaḥ||

You are the truth of truth; you are he whose dish or plate is formed by the destroyer of the universe; you are always engaged in seeking the well-being of the worlds; you are he who saves all creatures from distress; you are the bird called Saranga; you are a new swan; you are he who is shown in beauty on account of the crest on your head; you are he who protects the place where assemblies of the wise sit for dispensing justice.

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MBh 9 17.110

भूतालयो भूतपतिरहोरात्रमनिन्दितः॥ वाहिता सर्वभूतानां निलयश्च विभुर्भवः।

bhūtālayo bhūtapatirahorātramaninditaḥ|| vāhitā sarvabhūtānāṃ nilayaśca vibhurbhavaḥ|

You are the abode of all creaturcs; you are the Cherisher of all creatures; you are Day and Night; you are he who is without fault and, therefore, never censured; you are the upholder of all creatures; you are the refuge of all creatures; you are without birth; you are existent.

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MBh 9 17.111

अमोघः संयतो ह्यश्वो भोजनः प्राणधारणः॥ धृतिमान् मतिमान् दक्षः सत्कृतश्च युगाधिपः। गोपालिर्गोपतिमो गोचर्मवसनो हरिः॥

amoghaḥ saṃyato hyaśvo bhojanaḥ prāṇadhāraṇaḥ|| dhṛtimān matimān dakṣaḥ satkṛtaśca yugādhipaḥ| gopālirgopatimo gocarmavasano hariḥ||

You are ever fruitful; you are endued with concentration and meditation; you are the horse Uchchaishravas; you are the giver of food; you are he who upholds the vital airs of living creatures; you are gifted with patience; you are possessed of intelligence; you are endued with exertion and cleverness, you are respected by all; you are the giver of the fruits of virtue and sin; you are the cherisher of the senses; you are the lord of all the luminaries; you are all collections of objects; you are he whose dresses are made of cow-hides; you are he who removes the sorrow of his devotees.

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MBh 9 17.112

हिरण्यबाहुश्च तथा गुहापालः प्रवेशिनाम्। प्रकृष्टारिर्महाहर्षो जितकामो जितेन्द्रियः॥

hiraṇyabāhuśca tathā guhāpālaḥ praveśinām| prakṛṣṭārirmahāharṣo jitakāmo jitendriyaḥ||

You have a golden arm; you are he who protects the bodies of Yogins who seek to enter their own selves; you are he who has reduced all his foes to nothingness; you are he the measure of whose gladness is very great; you are he who won victory over the god of love who is irresistible; you are he who has controlled his senses.

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MBh 9 17.113

गान्धारश्च सुवासश्च तप:सक्तो रतिर्नरः। महागीतो महानृत्यो ह्यप्सरोगणसेवितः॥

gāndhāraśca suvāsaśca tapa:sakto ratirnaraḥ| mahāgīto mahānṛtyo hyapsarogaṇasevitaḥ||

You are the note called Gandhara in the musical octave; you are he who has an excellent and beautiful home; you are he who is ever given to penances, you are of the form of cheerfulness and contentment; you are he called vast or infinite; you are he in whose honour the foremost of hymns has been composed; you are he whose dancing is characterised by big strides and large leaps, you are he who is worshipped reverentially by the various clans of Apsaras.

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MBh 9 17.114

महाकेतुर्महाधातु३कसानुचरालः। आवेदनीय आदेश: सर्वगन्धसुखावहः॥

mahāketurmahādhātu3kasānucarālaḥ| āvedanīya ādeśa: sarvagandhasukhāvahaḥ||

You are he who owns a vast standard; you are the mountain of Meru; you are he who roves among all the summits of that great mountain; you are so mobile that it is every difficult to catch you; you are capable of being explained by preceptors to disciples although you are incapable of being described in words; you are of the form of that instruction which preceptors give to disciples; you are he who can perceive all agreeable scents simultaneously.

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MBh 9 17.115

तोरणस्तारणो वातः परिधी पतिखेचरः। संयोगो वर्धनो वृद्धो अतिवृद्धो गुणाधिकः॥

toraṇastāraṇo vātaḥ paridhī patikhecaraḥ| saṃyogo vardhano vṛddho ativṛddho guṇādhikaḥ||

You are of the form of the porched gates of cities and palaces; you are of the form of the moats and ditches that surround fortified towns and give the victory to the besieged garrison; you are the Wind; you are of the form of fortified cities and towns begirt by walls and moats; you are the prince of all winged creatures; you are of the form of Garuda; you are he who causes the creation by union of the opposite sexes; you are the foremost of all in virtues and knowledge; you are superior to even him who is the foremost of all in virtues and knowledge; you are above all virtues and knowledge.

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MBh 9 17.116

नित्य आत्मसहायश्च देवासुरपतिः पतिः। युक्तश्च युक्तबाहुश्च देवो दिविसुपर्वणः।।१२०।

nitya ātmasahāyaśca devāsurapatiḥ patiḥ| yuktaśca yuktabāhuśca devo divisuparvaṇaḥ||120|

You are eternal an immutable as also dependent on yourself; you are the lord and protector of the gods and Asuras; you are the master and protector of all crealures; you are he who puts on a coat of mail; you are he whose arms are competent to grind all enemies; you are an object of worship with even him who is called Suparvan in heaven.

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MBh 9 17.117

आषाढश्च सुषाढश्च ध्रुवोऽथ हरिणो हरः। वपुरावर्तमानेभ्यो वसुश्रेष्ठो महापथः॥

āṣāḍhaśca suṣāḍhaśca dhruvo'tha hariṇo haraḥ| vapurāvartamānebhyo vasuśreṣṭho mahāpathaḥ||

You are he who gives the power of bearing or upholding all things; you are yourself competent to bear all things; you are fixed and steady; you are white or pure; you carry the trident that can destroy (all things) ; you give bodies to those that constantly revolve in the universe of birth and death; you are more valuable than riches; you are the conduct of the righteous.

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MBh 9 17.118

शिरोहारी विमर्शश्च सर्वलक्षणलक्षितः। अक्षश्च रथयोगी च सर्वयोगी महाबलः॥

śirohārī vimarśaśca sarvalakṣaṇalakṣitaḥ| akṣaśca rathayogī ca sarvayogī mahābalaḥ||

You are he who had torn the head of Brahman after due thought; you are he who is endued with all those auspicious marks which are described in the sciences of palmistry, padology, phrenology and other branches of knowledge treating of physiognomy, etc., as the indicator of the mental tendency; you are that wooden bar which is called the axle of a car and, therefore, you are he who is attached to the car represented by the body; you are attached to all things; you are gifted with every great power, being as you are a hero of heroes.

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MBh 9 17.119

समाम्नायोऽसमाम्नायस्तीर्थदेवो महारथः। निर्जीवो जीवनो मन्त्रः शुभाक्षो बहुकर्कशः॥

samāmnāyo'samāmnāyastīrthadevo mahārathaḥ| nirjīvo jīvano mantraḥ śubhākṣo bahukarkaśaḥ||

You are the Veda; you are the Smritis the Itihasas, the Puranas, and other scriptures; you are the illustrious god of very sacred shrine; you are he who has the Earth for his car; you are the inert elements that form every creature; you are he who gives life into every combination of those inert elements; you are the Pranava and other sacred Mantras that put life into dead matter; you are he who casts peaceful looks; you are severely harsh.

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MBh 9 17.120

रत्नप्रभूतो रत्नाङ्गो महार्णवनिपानवित्। मूलं विशालो ह्यमृतो व्यक्ताव्यक्तस्तपोनिधिः॥

ratnaprabhūto ratnāṅgo mahārṇavanipānavit| mūlaṃ viśālo hyamṛto vyaktāvyaktastaponidhiḥ||

You are he in whom exist numberless precious attributes and possessions; you have a body that is red; you are he who has all the vast oceans for so many ponds filled for your drinking; you are the root of the tree of the world; you are escquisitely beautiful and shines with superior grandeur; you are of the form of ambrosia or nectar; you are both cause and effect; you are an ocean of penances.

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MBh 9 17.121

आरोहणोऽधिरोहश्च शीलधारी महायशाः। सेनाकल्पो महाकल्पो योगो युगकरो हरिः॥

ārohaṇo'dhirohaśca śīladhārī mahāyaśāḥ| senākalpo mahākalpo yogo yugakaro hariḥ||

You are he who is desirous of getting to the highest state of existence; you are he who has already acquired that state; you are he who is known for the purity of his conduct and act and observances; you are he who is possessed of great fame; you are the ornament of armies; you are he who is bedecked with celestial ornaments; you are Yoga; you are he from whom originates eternal time measured by Yugas and Kalpas; you are he who conveys creatures from place to place.

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MBh 9 17.122

युगरूपो महारूपो महानागहनोऽवधः। न्यायनिर्वपणः पादः पण्डितो ह्यचलोपमः॥

yugarūpo mahārūpo mahānāgahano'vadhaḥ| nyāyanirvapaṇaḥ pādaḥ paṇḍito hyacalopamaḥ||

You are of the form of Righteousness and sin and their compounds; you are great and without form; you are he who killed the powerful Asura that had approached against the sacred city of Varanasi in the form of an infuriate elephant of huge proportions; you are of the form of death; you grant all creatures fruition of their wishes proportionate to their merits; you are approachable; you know all things beyond the ken of the senses, you know the essences.

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MBh 9 17.123

बहुमालो महामालः शशी हरसुलोचनः। विस्तारो लवण: कूपस्त्रियुगः सफलोदयः॥

bahumālo mahāmālaḥ śaśī harasulocanaḥ| vistāro lavaṇa: kūpastriyugaḥ saphalodayaḥ||

You are he who continually shines in beauty; you put on garlands from neck to the feet; you are Hara having the Moon for his beautiful eye; you are the salt ocean of unmeasurable extent; you are the first three Yugas; you are he whose appearance is always full of advantage to others.

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MBh 9 17.124

त्रिलोचनो विषष्णाङ्गो मणिविद्धो जटाधरः। बिन्दुर्विसर्गः सुमुखः शरः सर्वायुधः सहः॥

trilocano viṣaṣṇāṅgo maṇividdho jaṭādharaḥ| bindurvisargaḥ sumukhaḥ śaraḥ sarvāyudhaḥ sahaḥ||

You are he who has three eyes; you are he whose forms are greatly subtile; you are he whose ears are bored for putting on jewelled earrings; you are the bearer of inatted locks; you are the point which indicates the nasal sound; you are the two dots in the alphabet) which indicate the sound of the aspirated H; you have an excellent face; you are the arrow that is shot by the warrior for bringing about the destruction of his enemy; you are all the weapons that are used by warriors; you are gifted with patience capable of bearing all things. are

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MBh 9 17.125

निवेदनः सुखाजातः सुगन्धारो महाधनुः। गन्धपाली च भगवानुत्थानः सर्वकर्मणाम्॥

nivedanaḥ sukhājātaḥ sugandhāro mahādhanuḥ| gandhapālī ca bhagavānutthānaḥ sarvakarmaṇām||

You he whose knowledge has originated from the stoppage of all physical and mental functions, you are he who appears as Truth on account of the cessation of all other faculties; you are that note which, originating from the region called Gandhara, is greatly sweet to the ear; you are he who is armed with the powerful bow (called Pinaka); You are he who is the understanding and the desires which exist in all creatures, besides being the supreme upholder of all beings; you are he from whom all acts originate.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.126

मन्थानो बहुलो वायुः सकलः सर्वलोचनः। तलस्ताल: करस्थाली ऊर्ध्वसंहननो महान्॥

manthāno bahulo vāyuḥ sakalaḥ sarvalocanaḥ| talastāla: karasthālī ūrdhvasaṃhanano mahān||

You are that wind which originates at the time of the universal dissolution and which is capable of churning the entire universe as the staff in the hands of the dairymaid churns the milk in the milkpot; you are he who is full; you are he who sees all things; you are the sound which arise from slapping palm against palm; your palm serves as the dish or plate whence to take his food; you have an adamantins body; you are exceedingly grcat.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.127

छत्रं सुच्छत्रो विख्यातो लोकः सर्वाश्रयः क्रमः। मुण्डो विरूपोविकृतो दण्डी कुण्डी विकुवर्णः॥

chatraṃ succhatro vikhyāto lokaḥ sarvāśrayaḥ kramaḥ| muṇḍo virūpovikṛto daṇḍī kuṇḍī vikuvarṇaḥ||

You are of the shape an umbrella; you are he who has an excellent umbrella; you are well known to be at one with all creatures; you are he who having put forth three feet covered all the universe with two and wanted space for the third; you have a bald head; you are he whose form is greatly ugly and dreadful; you are he who has undergone many modifications and become all things in the universe; you are he who has the wellknown badge of Renunciation viz., the stick; you are he who has a Kunda; you are he who is incapable of being attained to by means of acts.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.128

हर्यक्षः ककुभो वज्री शतजिह्वः सहस्रपात्। सहस्रमूर्धा देवेन्द्रः सर्वदेवमयो गुरुः॥

haryakṣaḥ kakubho vajrī śatajihvaḥ sahasrapāt| sahasramūrdhā devendraḥ sarvadevamayo guruḥ||

You are he who is at one with the green eyed king of beasts; you are top of the form of all the points of the compass; you are he who is armed with the thunder; you are he who has a hundred tongues; you are he who has a thousand feet and thousand heads; you are the Jord and king of the celestials; you are he who is made up of all the gods; you are the great Lord or preceptor.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.129

सहस्रबाहुः सर्वाङ्गः शरण्यः सर्वलोककृत्। पवित्रं त्रिककुन्मन्त्रः कनिष्ठः कृष्णपिङ्गलः।

sahasrabāhuḥ sarvāṅgaḥ śaraṇyaḥ sarvalokakṛt| pavitraṃ trikakunmantraḥ kaniṣṭhaḥ kṛṣṇapiṅgalaḥ|

You are he who has a thousand arms; you are he who is competent to get the fruition of every wish; you are he whose protection is sought by every one; worlds; you are he who is the creator of all the worlds; you are he who is the great purifier of all from every sin, in the form of shrines and sacred waters; you are he who has three high Mantras; you are the youngest (son of Aditi and Kashyapa); you are both black and tawny.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.130

ब्रह्मदण्डविनिर्माता शतघ्नीपाशशक्तिमान्। पद्मगर्भो महागर्भो ब्रह्मगर्भो जलोद्भवः॥

brahmadaṇḍavinirmātā śataghnīpāśaśaktimān| padmagarbho mahāgarbho brahmagarbho jalodbhavaḥ||

You are the maker of the Brahmana's rod; you are armed with the Sataghni, the noose, and the dart; you are he who was born within the primeval lotus; you are he who has a huge womb; you are he who has the Vedas in his womb; you are he who takes his rise from that infinite span of waters which appears after the dissolution of the universe.

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MBh 9 17.131

गभस्तिर्ब्रह्मकृद् ब्रह्मी ब्रह्मविद् ब्राह्मणो गतिः। अनन्तरूपो नैकात्मा तिग्मतेजाः स्वयम्भुवः॥

gabhastirbrahmakṛd brahmī brahmavid brāhmaṇo gatiḥ| anantarūpo naikātmā tigmatejāḥ svayambhuvaḥ||

You are he who has the effulgent rays; you are the creator of the Vedas; you are he who studies the Vedas; you are he who knows the meaning of the Vedas; you are devoted to Brahma; you are the refuge of all persons devoted to Brahina; you are of numberless form; you have innumerable bodies; you have irresistible prowess.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.132

ऊर्ध्वगात्मा पशुपतिर्वातरंहा मनोजवः। चन्दनी पद्मनालाग्रः सुरभ्युत्तरणो नरः॥

ūrdhvagātmā paśupatirvātaraṃhā manojavaḥ| candanī padmanālāgraḥ surabhyuttaraṇo naraḥ||

Your nature transcends the three universal tendencies (of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas); you are the lord of all sentiencs you are fleet like the wind; you are fleet like the mind; you are always smeared with sandal paste; you are the end of the stock of the primeval lotus; you are he who brought the celestial cow Surabhi down from a superior station to an inferior one by imprecating a curse upon her, you are that Brahman who was unable to see your end.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.133

कर्णिकारमहास्त्रग्वी नीलमौलि: पिनाकधृत्। उमापतिरुमाकान्तो जाह्नवीधृदुमाधवः॥

karṇikāramahāstragvī nīlamauli: pinākadhṛt| umāpatirumākānto jāhnavīdhṛdumādhavaḥ||

You are adorned with a large garland of Karnikara flowers; you are adorned with a diade:n of blue gems; you re the wielder of the bow called Pinaka; you are the master of the science of Brahma; you are he who has controlled his senses by the help of your knowledge of Brahma; you are he who bears Ganga on your head; you are the husband of Uma the daughter of Himavat.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.134

वरो वराहो वरदो वरेण्यः सुमाहास्वनः। महाप्रसादो दमनः शत्रुहा श्वेतपिङ्गलः॥

varo varāho varado vareṇyaḥ sumāhāsvanaḥ| mahāprasādo damanaḥ śatruhā śvetapiṅgalaḥ||

You are powerful; you are he who protects the universe by assuming various incarnations; you are worthy of adoration; you are that primeval Being with the equine head who recited the Vedas with a thundering voice; you are he whose favour is very great; you are the great subjugator; you are he who has killed all his enemies; you are both white and tawny.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.135

पीतात्मा परमात्मा च प्रयतात्मा प्रधानधृत्। सर्वपार्श्वमुखस्त्र्यक्षो धर्मसाधारणो वरः॥

pītātmā paramātmā ca prayatātmā pradhānadhṛt| sarvapārśvamukhastryakṣo dharmasādhāraṇo varaḥ||

You have a goldhued body; you are he who is of the form of pure joy; you are of a controlled soul; you are the basis of Ignorance which is called Pradhana and which, consisting of the three qualities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, is the cause whence the universe has originated; you are he whose faces are turned to every direction; you are he who has three eyes, you are he who is superior to all creatures.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.136

चराचरात्मा सूक्ष्मात्मा अमृतो गोवृषेश्वरः। साध्यर्षिर्वसुरादित्यो विवस्वान् सवितामृतः॥

carācarātmā sūkṣmātmā amṛto govṛṣeśvaraḥ| sādhyarṣirvasurādityo vivasvān savitāmṛtaḥ||

You are the soul of all mobile and immobile beings; you are of the form of the subtile soul; you are the giver of immortality in the form of Liberation as the fruit of all acts of virtue achieved by creatures without the desire of fruits, you are the preceptor of even those who are the gods of the gods; you are Vasu the son of Aditi; you are he who has innumerable rays of light, who brings forth the universe, and who is of the form of that Soma which is drunk in sacrifices.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.137

व्यासः सर्गः सुसंक्षेपो विस्तरः पर्ययो नरः। ऋतुः संवत्सरो मास: पक्षः संख्यासमापनः॥

vyāsaḥ sargaḥ susaṃkṣepo vistaraḥ paryayo naraḥ| ṛtuḥ saṃvatsaro māsa: pakṣaḥ saṃkhyāsamāpanaḥ||

You are Vyasa, the author of the Puranas and other sacred histories, you are the creations of Vyasa's brain both abridged and unabridged; you are the sum-lotal of sentiencies; you are the Season; you are the Year; you are the Month; you are the Fortnight; you are those sacred Days that end or conclude these periods.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.138

कलाः काष्ठा लवा मात्रा मुहूर्ताहःक्षपाः क्षणाः। विश्वक्षेत्रं प्रजाबीजं लिङ्गमाद्यस्तु निर्गमः॥

kalāḥ kāṣṭhā lavā mātrā muhūrtāhaḥkṣapāḥ kṣaṇāḥ| viśvakṣetraṃ prajābījaṃ liṅgamādyastu nirgamaḥ||

You are the Kalas; you are the Kashthas; you are the Lavas; you are the Matras; you are the Muhurta and Aha and Kshapa; you are the Kshanas; you are the soil upon which the tree of the universe stands; you are the seed of all creatures; you are the principle of greatness; you are the sprout of sentiency.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.139

सदसद् व्यक्तमव्यक्तं पिता माता पितामहः। स्वर्गद्वारं प्रजाद्वारं मोक्षद्वारं त्रिविष्टपम्॥

sadasad vyaktamavyaktaṃ pitā mātā pitāmahaḥ| svargadvāraṃ prajādvāraṃ mokṣadvāraṃ triviṣṭapam||

You are existent; you are non-existent; you are Manifest; you are Unmanifest; you are the Father; you are the Mother, you are the Grandfather, you are the door of Heaven; you are the door of the generation of all creatures; you are the door of Liberation; you are those acts of virtuc which lead to the felicity of heaven.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.140

निर्वाणं ह्लादनश्चैव ब्रह्मलोकः परा गतिः। देवासुरविनिर्माता देवासुरपरायणः॥

nirvāṇaṃ hlādanaścaiva brahmalokaḥ parā gatiḥ| devāsuravinirmātā devāsuraparāyaṇaḥ||

You are extinction; you are the gladdener; you are the region of Truth; you are superior to even that region of Truth which is attainable by the pious; you are he who is the creator of both the gods and the Asuras; you are the refuge of both the gods and the Asuras.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.141

देवासुरगुरुर्देवो देवासुरनमस्कृतः। देवासुरमहामात्रो देवासुरगणाश्रयः॥

devāsuragururdevo devāsuranamaskṛtaḥ| devāsuramahāmātro devāsuragaṇāśrayaḥ||

You are the preceptor of both the gods and the Asuras; you are ever victorious; you are ever worshipped by the gods and the Asuras; you guide the deities and the Asuras even as the Mahamatra guides the elephant; you are the refuge of all the gods and the Asuras.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.142

देवासुरगणाध्यक्षो देवासुरगणाग्रणीः। देवातिदेवो देवर्षिर्देवासुरवरप्रदः॥

devāsuragaṇādhyakṣo devāsuragaṇāgraṇīḥ| devātidevo devarṣirdevāsuravarapradaḥ||

You are the king of both the deities and the Asuras; you are the leader in battle of both the gods and the Asuras; you are he who transcends the senses and shines by himself; you are of the form of the celestial Rishis; you grant boons to the deities and the Asuras.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.143

देवासुरेश्वरो विश्वो देवासुरमहेश्वरः। सर्वदेवमयोऽचिन्त्यो देवतात्माऽऽत्मसम्भवः॥

devāsureśvaro viśvo devāsuramaheśvaraḥ| sarvadevamayo'cintyo devatātmā''tmasambhavaḥ||

You are he who rules the hearts of the gods and the Asuras; you are he into whom the universe enters; you are the refuge of even him who is the ruler of the hearts of both the gods and the Asuras; you are he whose body is made up of all the gods; you are he who has no Being superior to you of whom to think; you are he who is the inner soul of the gods; you are he who has originated from his own self.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.144

उद्भित् त्रिविकमो वैद्यो विरजो नीरजोऽमरः। ईड्यो हस्तीश्वरो व्याघ्रो देवसिंहो नरर्षभः॥

udbhit trivikamo vaidyo virajo nīrajo'maraḥ| īḍyo hastīśvaro vyāghro devasiṃho nararṣabhaḥ||

You are of the form of immobile things; You are he who covers the three worlds with three steps of his; you are possessed of great learning; you are stainless; you are he who is freed from the quality of Rajas; you are above destruction; you are he in whose honour hymns should be sung; you are the lord of the irresistible elephant of Time; you are of the form of that lord of Tigers who is adored in the country of the Kalingas; you are he who is called the lion among the gods; you are he who is the foremost of men.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.145

विबुधोऽग्रवरः सूक्ष्मः सर्वदेवस्तपोमयः। सुयुक्तः शोभनो वज्री प्रासानां प्रभवोऽव्ययः॥

vibudho'gravaraḥ sūkṣmaḥ sarvadevastapomayaḥ| suyuktaḥ śobhano vajrī prāsānāṃ prabhavo'vyayaḥ||

You are profoundly wise; you are he who first takes a share of the offerings in sacrifices; you are imperceptible; you are the collection of all the celestials; you are he in whom penances prevail; you are always in excellent Yoga; you are auspicious; you are armed with the thunderbolt; you are the source whence the weapons called maces have taken their origin. You are he whom your devotees acquire in various ways. are

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.146

गुहः कान्तो निजः सर्गः पवित्रं सर्वपावनः। शृङ्गी शृङ्गप्रियो बभू राजराजो निरामयः॥

guhaḥ kānto nijaḥ sargaḥ pavitraṃ sarvapāvanaḥ| śṛṅgī śṛṅgapriyo babhū rājarājo nirāmayaḥ||

You Guha (the celestial commanderinchief); you are the supreme limit of happiness; you are at one with your creation; you are he who rescues your creatures from death; you are the purifier of all including Brahman himself; you are of the form of bulls and other horned animals; you are he who is fond of mountain summits; you are the planet Saturn; you are Kubera the king of the Yakshas; you are consummate faultlessness.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.147

अभिरामः सुरगणो विरामः सर्वसाधनः। ललाटाक्षो विश्वदेवो हरिणो ब्रह्मवर्चसः॥

abhirāmaḥ suragaṇo virāmaḥ sarvasādhanaḥ| lalāṭākṣo viśvadevo hariṇo brahmavarcasaḥ||

You are he who gives gladness; you are all the celestials in a body; you are the cessation of all things; you are all the duties that belong to all the modes of life; you are he who has an eye on his forehead; you are he who sports with the universe as his marble ball; you are of the form of deer; you are gifted with the energy that is of the forin of knowledge and penance.

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MBh 9 17.148

स्थावराणां पतिश्चैव नियमेन्द्रियवर्धनः। सिद्धार्थ :सिद्धभूतार्थोऽचिन्त्यः सत्यव्रतः शुचिः॥१५२

sthāvarāṇāṃ patiścaiva niyamendriyavardhanaḥ| siddhārtha :siddhabhūtārtho'cintyaḥ satyavrataḥ śuciḥ||152

You are the master of all immobile things; you are he who has restrained his senses by various regulations and vows; you are he whose objects have all been fulfilled; you are at one with Liberation; you are different from him whom we adore; you have truth for you penances, you are of a pure heart.

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MBh 9 17.149

व्रताधिपः परं ब्रह्म भक्तानां परमा गतिः। विमुक्तो मुक्ततेजाच श्रीमाश्रीवर्धनो जगत्॥

vratādhipaḥ paraṃ brahma bhaktānāṃ paramā gatiḥ| vimukto muktatejāca śrīmāśrīvardhano jagat||

You are he who lords over all vows and fasts; you are the highest; you are Brahma; you are the highest refuge of your devotees; your are above all fetters; you are freed from the corporeal body; you are endued with every kind of prosperity; you multiply the prosperity of your devotees; you are what is continually undergoing changes.

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MBh 9 17.150

यथाप्रधानं भगवानिति भक्त्या स्तुतो मया। यन्न ब्रह्मादयो देवा विदुस्तत्त्वेन नर्षयः॥

yathāpradhānaṃ bhagavāniti bhaktyā stuto mayā| yanna brahmādayo devā vidustattvena narṣayaḥ||

I have thus, O Krishna, sang the praises of the illustrious god by reciting his names in the order of their importance. Who is there who can sing the praises of the lord of the universe, that great Lord of all who is worthy of our adorations, worship, and reverence, whom the very gods headed by Brahman are unable to praise and whom the Rishis also fail to sing.

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MBh 9 17.151

स्तोतव्यमर्थ्य वन्द्यं च कः स्तोष्यति जगत्पतिम्। भक्त्या त्वेवं पुरस्कृत्य मया यज्ञपतिर्विभुः॥

stotavyamarthya vandyaṃ ca kaḥ stoṣyati jagatpatim| bhaktyā tvevaṃ puraskṛtya mayā yajñapatirvibhuḥ||

Helped, however, by my devotion to him, and having received his permission, I have lauded that Lord of sacrifices, that Deity of supreme power, that foremost of all creatures gifted with intelligence.

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MBh 9 17.152

ततोऽभ्यनुज्ञां सम्प्राप्य स्तुतो मतिमतां वरः। शिवमेभिः स्तुवन् देवं नामभिः पुष्टिवर्धनैः॥

tato'bhyanujñāṃ samprāpya stuto matimatāṃ varaḥ| śivamebhiḥ stuvan devaṃ nāmabhiḥ puṣṭivardhanaiḥ||

By praising with these names which increase one's auspiciousness the great lord of blessedness, a worshipper of devoted soul and pure heart gains his own self.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.153

नित्ययुक्तः शुचिर्भक्तः प्राप्नोत्यात्मानमात्मना॥ एतद्धि परमं ब्रह्म परं ब्रह्माधिगच्छति। ऋषयश्चैव देवाश्च स्तुवन्त्येतेन तत्परम्॥

nityayuktaḥ śucirbhaktaḥ prāpnotyātmānamātmanā|| etaddhi paramaṃ brahma paraṃ brahmādhigacchati| ṛṣayaścaiva devāśca stuvantyetena tatparam||

These names form a hymn which supplies the best means of attaining to Brahma. With the help of this hymn one is sure to acquire Liberation. The Rishis and the gods all praise the highest deity by uttering this hymn.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.154

स्तूयमानो महादेवस्तुष्यते नियतात्मभिः। भक्तानुकम्पी भगवानात्मसंस्थाकरो विभुः॥

stūyamāno mahādevastuṣyate niyatātmabhiḥ| bhaktānukampī bhagavānātmasaṃsthākaro vibhuḥ||

Hymned by persons of controlled soul, Mahadeva becomes pleased with those who sing his praises thus. The illustrious god is always full of mercy towards his devotees. Gifted with omnipotence, he it is who gives Liberation to those who adore him.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.155

तथैव च मनुष्येषु ये मनुष्याः प्रधानतः। आस्तिकाः श्रद्दधानाश्च बहुभिर्जन्मभिः स्तवैः॥ भक्त्या ह्यनन्यमीशानं परं देवं सनातनम्। कर्मणा मनसा वाचा भावेनामिततेजसः॥ शयाना जाग्रमाणाश्च व्रजन्नुपविशंस्तथा। उन्मिषन् निमिषंश्चैव चिन्तयन्तः पुनः पुनः॥ शृण्वन्तः श्रावयन्तश्च कथयन्तश्च ते भवम्। स्तुवन्तः स्तूयमानाश्च तुष्यन्ति च रमन्ति च॥

tathaiva ca manuṣyeṣu ye manuṣyāḥ pradhānataḥ| āstikāḥ śraddadhānāśca bahubhirjanmabhiḥ stavaiḥ|| bhaktyā hyananyamīśānaṃ paraṃ devaṃ sanātanam| karmaṇā manasā vācā bhāvenāmitatejasaḥ|| śayānā jāgramāṇāśca vrajannupaviśaṃstathā| unmiṣan nimiṣaṃścaiva cintayantaḥ punaḥ punaḥ|| śṛṇvantaḥ śrāvayantaśca kathayantaśca te bhavam| stuvantaḥ stūyamānāśca tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca||

Those foremost of men who are endued with faith and devotion, hear and recite for others and utter with respect the praises of that highest and eternal Lord, viz., Ishana. in all their successive lives and worship him in thought, word and deed, and worshipping him thus at all times, viz., when they are lying or seated or walking or awake or opening the eyelids or shutting them, and thinking of him again and again, become objects of respect with all their fellow men and derive great pleasure and exceeding joy.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.156

जन्मकोटिसहस्रेषु नानासंसारयोनिषु। जन्तोर्विगतपापस्य भवे भक्तिः प्रजायते॥

janmakoṭisahasreṣu nānāsaṃsārayoniṣu| jantorvigatapāpasya bhave bhaktiḥ prajāyate||

When a creature becomes purged of all his sins in course of millions of births in various orders of Being, it is then that devotion originates in his heart for Mahadeva.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.157

उत्पन्ना च भवे भक्तिरनन्या सर्वभावतः। भाविनः कारणे चास्य सर्वयुक्तस्य सर्वथा॥

utpannā ca bhave bhaktirananyā sarvabhāvataḥ| bhāvinaḥ kāraṇe cāsya sarvayuktasya sarvathā||

It is by good luck only that undivided devotion to Bhava who is the original cause (of the universe) fully originates in the heart of one who is conversant with every mode of adoring that great Deity.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.158

एतद् देवेषु दुष्प्रापं मनुष्येषु न लभ्यते। निर्विघ्ना निश्चला रुद्रे भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी॥

etad deveṣu duṣprāpaṃ manuṣyeṣu na labhyate| nirvighnā niścalā rudre bhaktiravyabhicāriṇī||

Such stainless and pure devotion to Rudra, which has singleness of purpose and which is simply irresistible in its course, is seldom to be found among even the gods, but never among men.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.159

तस्यैव च प्रसादेन भक्तिरुत्पद्यते नृणाम्। येन यान्ति परां सिद्धिं तद्भागवतचेतसः॥

tasyaiva ca prasādena bhaktirutpadyate nṛṇām| yena yānti parāṃ siddhiṃ tadbhāgavatacetasaḥ||

It is through the favour of Rudra that such devotion originates in the hearts of human beings. On account of such devotion, men, identifying themselves wholly with Mahadeva, succeeds in acquiring the highest success.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.160

ये सर्वभावानुगताः प्रपद्यन्ते महेश्वरम्। प्रपन्नवत्सलो देवः संसारात् तान् समुद्धरेत्॥

ye sarvabhāvānugatāḥ prapadyante maheśvaram| prapannavatsalo devaḥ saṃsārāt tān samuddharet||

The illustrious Deity, who is always bent upon showing favour to them who seek him with humility rescues them from the world who throw themselves whole mindedly upon him.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.161

एवमन्ये विकुर्वन्ति देवाः संसारमोचनम्। मनुष्याणामृते देवं नान्या शक्तिस्तपोबलम्॥

evamanye vikurvanti devāḥ saṃsāramocanam| manuṣyāṇāmṛte devaṃ nānyā śaktistapobalam||

Save the great god who frees creatures from rebirth, all other gods continually nullify the Penances of men, for men have no other source of power that it is as great as these.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.162

इति तेनेन्द्रकल्पेन भगवान् सदसत्पतिः। कृत्तिवासाः स्तुतः कृष्ण तण्डिना शुभबुद्धिना॥१७०

iti tenendrakalpena bhagavān sadasatpatiḥ| kṛttivāsāḥ stutaḥ kṛṣṇa taṇḍinā śubhabuddhinā||170

It was thus that Tandi of tranquil soul, resembling Indra himself in glory, lauded the illustrious Master of alll existent and nonexistent things, that great Deity clad in animal skins.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.163

स्तवमेतं भगवतो ब्रह्मा स्वयमधारयत्। गीयते च स बुद्ध्येत ब्रह्मा शंकरसंनिधौ॥

stavametaṃ bhagavato brahmā svayamadhārayat| gīyate ca sa buddhyeta brahmā śaṃkarasaṃnidhau||

This hymn was borne by Brahma himself. Indeed, Brahman had sung it before Shankara. You are a Brahmana. You will therefore, comprehend it well.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.164

इदं पुण्यं पवित्रं च सर्वदा पापनाशनम्। योगदं मोक्षदं चैव स्वर्गदं तोषदं तथा॥

idaṃ puṇyaṃ pavitraṃ ca sarvadā pāpanāśanam| yogadaṃ mokṣadaṃ caiva svargadaṃ toṣadaṃ tathā||

This is cleansing and washes away all sins. This confers Yoga, Liberation, heaven and contentment.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.165

एवमेतत् पठन्ते य एकभक्त्या तु शङ्करम्। या गतिः सांख्ययोगानां व्रजन्त्येतां गतिं तदा॥

evametat paṭhante ya ekabhaktyā tu śaṅkaram| yā gatiḥ sāṃkhyayogānāṃ vrajantyetāṃ gatiṃ tadā||

He who recites this hymn with rapt devotion to Shankara, succeeds in acquiring that high end which is theirs who are devoted to the doctrines of the Sankhya philosophy.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.166

स्तवमेतं प्रयलेन सदा रुद्रस्य संनिधौ। अब्दमेकं चरेद्भक्तः प्राप्नुयादीप्सितं फलम्॥

stavametaṃ prayalena sadā rudrasya saṃnidhau| abdamekaṃ caredbhaktaḥ prāpnuyādīpsitaṃ phalam||

That worshipper who recites this hymn daily for one year with singleness of devotion succeeds in acquiring the end that he desires.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.167

एतद् रहस्यं परमं ब्रह्मणो हृदि संस्थितम्। ब्रह्मा प्रोवाच शक्राय शक्रः प्रोवाच मृत्यवे॥

etad rahasyaṃ paramaṃ brahmaṇo hṛdi saṃsthitam| brahmā provāca śakrāya śakraḥ provāca mṛtyave||

This hymn is a great mystery. It formerly lived in the breast of Brahinan the Creator. Branman gave it to Shakra. Shakra gave it to Death.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.168

मृत्युः प्रोवाच रुद्रेभ्यो रुद्रेभ्यस्तण्डिमागमत्। महता तपसा प्राप्तस्तण्डिना ब्रह्मसद्मनि॥

mṛtyuḥ provāca rudrebhyo rudrebhyastaṇḍimāgamat| mahatā tapasā prāptastaṇḍinā brahmasadmani||

Death gave it to the Rudras. From the Rudras Tandi got it. Indeed, Tandi got it in the region of Brahman as the reward of his austere penances.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.169

तण्डिः प्रोवाच शुक्राय गौतमाय च भार्गवः। वैवस्वताय मनवे गौतमः प्राह माधव॥

taṇḍiḥ provāca śukrāya gautamāya ca bhārgavaḥ| vaivasvatāya manave gautamaḥ prāha mādhava||

Tandi communicated it to Shukra and Shukra of Bhrigu's race communicated it to Gautama. Gautama, again, O descendant of Madhu, communicated it to Vaivasvata Manu.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.170

नारायणाय साध्याय समाधिष्ठाय धीमते। यमाय प्राह भगवान् साध्यो नारायणोऽच्युतः॥

nārāyaṇāya sādhyāya samādhiṣṭhāya dhīmate| yamāya prāha bhagavān sādhyo nārāyaṇo'cyutaḥ||

Manu communicated it to the highly intelligent Narayana, number among the Sadhyas and held highly dear by him. The illustrious Narayana, numbered among the Sadhyas and endued with undecaying glory, communicated it to Yama.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.171

नाचिकेताय भगवानाह वैवस्वतो यमः। मार्कण्डेयाय वार्ष्णेय नाचिकेतोऽभ्यभाषत॥

nāciketāya bhagavānāha vaivasvato yamaḥ| mārkaṇḍeyāya vārṣṇeya nāciketo'bhyabhāṣata||

Vaivasvat Yana communicated it to Nachiketa. Nachiketa, O you of Vrishni's race, communicated it to Markandeya.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.172

मार्कण्डेयान्मया प्राप्तो नियमेन जनार्दन। तवाप्यहममित्रघ्न स्तवं दद्यां ह्याविश्रुतम्॥

mārkaṇḍeyānmayā prāpto niyamena janārdana| tavāpyahamamitraghna stavaṃ dadyāṃ hyāviśrutam||

Krishna said From Markandeya, O Janarddana I got it as the reward of my vows and fasts. To you, O slayer of enemies, I communicate that hymn unheard by others.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 9 17.173

स्वर्ण्यमारोग्यमायुष्यं धन्यं वेदेन सम्मितम्। नास्य विनं विकुर्वन्ति दानवा यक्षराक्षसाः। पिशाचा यातुधाना वा गुह्यका भुजगा अपि॥ यः पठेत शुचिः पार्थ ब्रह्मचारी जितेन्द्रियः। अभग्नयोगो वर्षं तु सोऽश्वमेधफलं लभेत्॥

svarṇyamārogyamāyuṣyaṃ dhanyaṃ vedena sammitam| nāsya vinaṃ vikurvanti dānavā yakṣarākṣasāḥ| piśācā yātudhānā vā guhyakā bhujagā api|| yaḥ paṭheta śuciḥ pārtha brahmacārī jitendriyaḥ| abhagnayogo varṣaṃ tu so'śvamedhaphalaṃ labhet||

This hymn leads to heaven. It removes disease and bestows long life. This is worthy of the highest praise, and is consistent with the Vedas. That person, O Partha, who recites this hymn with a pure heart observing the vow of celibacy, and with his senses under restraint, regularly for one whole year, succeeds in acquiring the fruits of a horse sacrifice, Danavas and Yakshas and Rakshasas and Pishachas and Yatudhanas and Guhyakas and snakes can do no harm to him.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)